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Hello All
Just read this in the AfterDawn Newsletter.
Don't know if it has any implications for our hobby!
Come back Arthur and explain it all to us.
Regards
W. Hole
Link: http://www.afterdawn.com/news/
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MOD CHIPS ILLEGAL IN THE UK
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British High Court has ruled that selling, advertising,
possession for commercial use and even use of PS2 mod chips
is illegal in the UK. The ruling was based on UK's
implementation of the notorious EUCD legislation that UK
implemented to its national legislation, virtually without
consumer friendly amendments, back in October 2003. The
European Union Copyright Directive legislation makes it
illegal to sell or distribute tools that allow circumventing
technical copy protection mechanisms.
The ruling was made against a Briton, David Ball, who sold
1,500 Messiah 2 PS2 mod chips in the UK. Mod chips are
basically hardware modifications to games consoles that
allow playing imported games, game backups, self-made
software and, obviously, pirated games. Many Linux
distributions and media player tools require mod chips to be
installed in order to run the software.
Just read this in the AfterDawn Newsletter.
Don't know if it has any implications for our hobby!
Come back Arthur and explain it all to us.
Regards
W. Hole
Link: http://www.afterdawn.com/news/
------------------------------------------------------------
MOD CHIPS ILLEGAL IN THE UK
------------------------------------------------------------
British High Court has ruled that selling, advertising,
possession for commercial use and even use of PS2 mod chips
is illegal in the UK. The ruling was based on UK's
implementation of the notorious EUCD legislation that UK
implemented to its national legislation, virtually without
consumer friendly amendments, back in October 2003. The
European Union Copyright Directive legislation makes it
illegal to sell or distribute tools that allow circumventing
technical copy protection mechanisms.
The ruling was made against a Briton, David Ball, who sold
1,500 Messiah 2 PS2 mod chips in the UK. Mod chips are
basically hardware modifications to games consoles that
allow playing imported games, game backups, self-made
software and, obviously, pirated games. Many Linux
distributions and media player tools require mod chips to be
installed in order to run the software.