Australian Court Rules Console Modding Legal

An Australian Court Rules that modding consoles do not infringe copyright because Sony was unable to show that copy protection measures had been built into their consoles. The Australian consumer watchdog organization ACCC has fought Sony over region coding in the past as being anti-consumer by denying them the right to play genuinely purchased games from cheaper overseas sources.

Source: GameIndustry.biz

• Australia Copyright Reform to Explicitly Permit Region-Code Mod Chips (December 6, 2006)
• Region Coding for PS3 Unlikely (November 8, 2005)
• Australian High Court Rules PlayStation Region Code Mod Chips Legal (October 6, 2005)
• Sony Plans New Legal Challenge to Mod Chips in Australia (March 16, 2005)

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