Australian court rules modified PlayStation legal
A Reuters newswire article by Michael Perry, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
The High Court of Australia ruled on Thursday that modifying Sony PlayStation consoles so they can play overseas versions or copies of games did not breach Australian copyright laws.
The ruling was a victory for Sydney retailer Eddy Stevens who has been involved in a four-year battle with consumer electronics giant Sony Corp. after he modified Australian-made PlayStation consoles for customers so they could play cheaper overseas versions of games.
Sony had sued Stevens because he had sold PlayStations with modified chips, overcoming regional coding blocks that stopped the machine playing imported or copied games.
Sony claimed Stevens violated its copyright by bypassing encrypted access codes aimed at protecting copyright.
posted by Fergie @ 10/06/2005 05:34:00 AM
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