PlayStation loses chipping case

[Jared Moya]

Sony has lost a legal battle in Australia over the modifying of its PlayStation games console.  The High Court has ruled that chipping the console so that it can play imported games does not breach copyright law. The ruling ends a four-year legal battle between Sony and a supplier of so-called mod chips, which bypass regional controls on the machine.  After a series of conflicting judgements from different courts, the High Court has come down on the side of Mr Stevens. It ruled that mod chips do not breach copyright. It decided that while the chips let gamers play copied or imported games, they do not enable the copying of games.

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