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Modchips declared legal in the UK
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article published on 13 June, 2008
In the UK it has been ruled that the creation and sale of modchips are infact legal, overturning a past ruling by a lower court.
The UK Court of Appeals ruled in favor of vendor Neil Higgs, who had been arrested on 26 charges of selling modification kits for consoles, most notably the PlayStation 2, Xbox and Xbox 360. For those unaware, modchips allow gamers to play pirated games, usually ... [ read the full article ]
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SDF_GR
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15. June 2008 @ 19:08 |
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You people will even have problem with content released in flash drives as long as it has DRM.
A flash drive is almost unbreakable, no scratch issue and some of them are even waterproof.
BUT!!
with flash drives that you run out of excuse you say that you want to move content to your ipod, your psp, mobile phone etc.
Not that is something isnt it?
DRM sucks for sure, i dont like locked content either.
I like that i am able to copy my discs, my games, movies what ever, but to say that you want to copy a disc for back up reasons, that is at least hilarious.
What you are saying is that you can take care your Car,your motorcycle your TV, your kid, your house and you cant take care a damn disc???
Give me a break.
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15. June 2008 @ 19:20 |
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Originally posted by SDF_GR:
You people will even have problem with content released in flash drives as long as it has DRM.
A flash drive is almost unbreakable, no scratch issue and some of them are even waterproof.
BUT!!
with flash drives that you run out of excuse you say that you want to move content to your ipod, your psp, mobile phone etc.
Not that is something isnt it?
DRM sucks for sure, i dont like locked content either.
I like that i am able to copy my discs, my games, movies what ever, but to say that you want to copy a disc for back up reasons, that is at least hilarious.
What you are saying is that you can take care your Car,your motorcycle your TV, your kid, your house and you cant take care a damn disc???
Give me a break.
And I am sure you want to carry 5 or 10 flash cards with you to play on trips.... speaking of which have you tried taking a disc on tripes?
Sorry backing up is as logical as playing it, time and time again the media mafia tries to infringe on consumer rights to assert their power and make deals that give them and their pets in office power, what do they give us?.
Music police hounding real police
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14487.cfm
Or Conspiring to entrap consumers with data gathering from the ISP which should remain a neutral party unless law enforcement can find the crime without committing one.
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14494.cfm
Or shutting down access to newgroups just because they think they can get away with it forget common carrier laws....
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14493.cfm
Or better yet a teired net thats not a tiered net because the ISPs didn't want to update the infrastructure of the net when it was cheap so many years ago
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14484.cfm
Or how about locking a Cell phone to a a single over price service when it can work as well on any in the area of service or lockign a game to a console or better yet limiting how many times you can install a game....I am sorry but there is a huge diffrance in sharing data that wont be bought new anyway and raping the goddamn consumer thats just as bad as buying a poor qaulity bootleg!
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16. June 2008 @ 01:00 |
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I love this, it reminds me of wat happened a few years ago here in Australia and the same sorta rulling went down saying mod chips do not cause the piracy i like how common sense is prevalling here.
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16. June 2008 @ 02:31 |
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You people will even have problem with content released in flash drives as long as it has DRM.
A flash drive is almost unbreakable, no scratch issue and some of them are even waterproof.
BUT!!
with flash drives that you run out of excuse you say that you want to move content to your ipod, your psp, mobile phone etc.
Not that is something isnt it?
DRM sucks for sure, i dont like locked content either.
I like that i am able to copy my discs, my games, movies what ever, but to say that you want to copy a disc for back up reasons, that is at least hilarious.
What you are saying is that you can take care your Car,your motorcycle your TV, your kid, your house and you cant take care a damn disc???
Give me a break.
disc scratches once, it's done. you just lost important data or it has become damaged. and flash drives have a small life span. digital media, backups, last usually as long as the user wants them to. through sharing, files can always live and thrive, thus lasting forever. and essentially, when you copy something, you're in the same leagues with us. ;)
your examples are very exaggerated. if you want a better example, buy a cake. bring it home, look at it, hell take it to work, put it in your car, leave it, and see how long you can keep that all intact before it just looks like sh*t. I mean apart from the mold, i give you about 3 days.
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mattcorn
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16. June 2008 @ 22:52 |
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Originally posted by ZippyDSM:
....all this means is that it will lead to the legalization of mod chips but in itself dose nothign for the current laws in place.
...and that legitimate business people who were screwed can get something back for their inconvenience. That's the real important part. If the US legalized mod chips, I wouldn't get one at this point in time, but it would be good to know that there would be a chance that those who worked hard at what they did would be compensated.
I doubt it the whimsy of the government is quite sadistic, the US gov er the US companies have a tight lock on the US gov so I don't see mod chips being legal anytime soon...
I'm lost. Since when are mod chips illegal?
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16. June 2008 @ 23:08 |
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Originally posted by ZippyDSM:
....all this means is that it will lead to the legalization of mod chips but in itself dose nothign for the current laws in place.
...and that legitimate business people who were screwed can get something back for their inconvenience. That's the real important part. If the US legalized mod chips, I wouldn't get one at this point in time, but it would be good to know that there would be a chance that those who worked hard at what they did would be compensated.
I doubt it the whimsy of the government is quite sadistic, the US gov er the US companies have a tight lock on the US gov so I don't see mod chips being legal anytime soon...
I'm lost. Since when are mod chips illegal?
DMCA made mod chips illegal and even ICE and the FBI have been out and about cracking down on 30+ year olds that live with their parents that might have more than 100 legit games and a mod chip......
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tedrehak
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20. June 2008 @ 03:18 |
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GREAT RESULT !! The Public 1 - JEWS 0 !!!
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20. June 2008 @ 03:21 |
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Originally posted by tedrehak:
GREAT RESULT !! The Public 1 - JEWS 0 !!!
oy vay.......
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eviluke
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20. June 2008 @ 10:53 |
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hahahha of course the only reason the bloody government legalises thing is so the buggers can tax them!!
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29. June 2008 @ 02:00 |
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good for the uk
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