Mod Chips - Are they a threat?
Simply put: No.
Most console mods I know of are to multi-zone the DVD capabilities not to pirate games. In fact I have seen my nephews get quite angry at the idea of pirating games.
In Australia it is border line illegal to sell zoned players, all it needs is a supreme court discission that put two pieces of legislation together(Copyright Ammendment Act 1992 and Trade Practices Act 1972) for it to be made illegal. These make it legal to parallel import movies and music, and illegal to restrict choice. So all we really need is to show that there is a DVD with different options/extras from a different zone, easily done, or there is no way of getting Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in zone 4 (It's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone over here) or even that in zone 4 the Movie is in PAL format which gives you 25fps play back and not NTSC where it is the original 24fps.
It is quite straight forward really, zoning is illegal in Australia.
The ACCC has ruled that modding a Sony Play Station is fine, but it is still illegal to copy games.
Most console mods I know of are to multi-zone the DVD capabilities not to pirate games. In fact I have seen my nephews get quite angry at the idea of pirating games.
In Australia it is border line illegal to sell zoned players, all it needs is a supreme court discission that put two pieces of legislation together(Copyright Ammendment Act 1992 and Trade Practices Act 1972) for it to be made illegal. These make it legal to parallel import movies and music, and illegal to restrict choice. So all we really need is to show that there is a DVD with different options/extras from a different zone, easily done, or there is no way of getting Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in zone 4 (It's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone over here) or even that in zone 4 the Movie is in PAL format which gives you 25fps play back and not NTSC where it is the original 24fps.
It is quite straight forward really, zoning is illegal in Australia.
The ACCC has ruled that modding a Sony Play Station is fine, but it is still illegal to copy games.
posted by medge at 9:53 am
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