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Mod-chips ruled legal in Australia
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"THE High Court of Australia has unanimously ruled that mod-chips are legal, but the implications of the case for game manufacturers are not clear.
The mod chips circumvent technology designed to stop Sony PlayStation consoles from playing illegally copied game discs.
The mod chips also allow gamers to ignore manufacturers' regional coding systems and purchase games and DVDs designed for markets outside of Australia, which are often cheaper than those from local suppliers.
All six High Court judges held that widely-used mod-chips were legal."
http://australianit.news.com.au/arti...nbv%5E,00.html
It's about time consumers came out on top.
Until the Government changes the law to screw the consumer again.
So buy 'em while they are legal people.
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Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion - Steven Weinberg.
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And yet it's still technically illegal to use a MP3 player there*. What a country.
*No one is selling MP3s in Oz and it's illegal to rip MP3s from a CD there.
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Many people have Mp3 players here. Who told you they are illegal.. that's stupid. I have an iPod Shuffle. It's great.
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Cubeoid: It's true, they are illegal here. But its an unenforced law. We also don't have 'fair use' laws that allow the copying of our CDs to our computers like most other developed countries, yet that too is unenforced.
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You mean you do have fair use laws?
Also, are these mod-chips easy to acquire here in the states?
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No, we don't have fair-use laws. We don't have laws that allow us to copy our own copyrighted material for 'fair use/personal' reasons. Our laws technically still enforce that copying of copyrighted material is illegal.
This is unenforced however, with no precedent for anyone being prosecuted for what would be regarded in the states as 'Fair/Personal Use'.
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Originally Posted by Railroader
Michael Kerin is an idiot. I bet most musicians think so too.
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Originally Posted by Railroader
"The 27-year-old is opposed to piracy, and once watched a pirated movie for only three minutes before the guilt overtook her and she switched it off."
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Originally Posted by demograph68
Michael Kerin is an idiot. I bet most musicians think so too.
I agree 100% But, he is the worst kind of idiot... a greedy idiot with a little power.
Originally Posted by PurpleGiant
"The 27-year-old is opposed to piracy, and once watched a pirated movie for only three minutes before the guilt overtook her and she switched it off."
A little bit more of the quote:
"The 27-year-old is opposed to piracy, and once watched a pirated movie for only three minutes before the guilt overtook her and she switched it off.
"When I got my iPod I got online ready to pay. Hours later and after being devastated to find out Apple doesn't care about iPod owners, I had to give up," she said. '
You don't think she's a MS user and finds them to be a upstanding business do you?
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