"In Australia they made them legal as they bypass region coding and stop anti-competitive pricing of games."
Yes, and Sony went back to court with a bigger bag of money, and the backing of Little Johnnie Howard's "Free Trade" agreement with the USA (which enforces such things as DMCA and FDA rulings on Australia) and got them made illegal again. That fecking "Free Trade" agreement overrides our consumer protection laws, unfortunately.
No great problem, if our Feds can't even properly frame a "terrorist" without screwing things up, I don't think mod chippers have got much to worry about.
And as for "an offence to *make* or possess a device which can render inoperative copy protection mechanisms." does this mean Torx screwdrivers, soldering irons, unused PIC chips, kynar wire, books about digital circuitry, access to the Internet, etc. are all now illegal?
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"In Australia they made them legal as they bypass region coding and stop anti-competitive pricing of games."
Yes, and Sony went back to court with a bigger bag of money, and the backing of Little Johnnie Howard's "Free Trade" agreement with the USA (which enforces such things as DMCA and FDA rulings on Australia) and got them made illegal again. That fecking "Free Trade" agreement overrides our consumer protection laws, unfortunately.
No great problem, if our Feds can't even properly frame a "terrorist" without screwing things up, I don't think mod chippers have got much to worry about.
And as for "an offence to *make* or possess a device which can render inoperative copy protection mechanisms." does this mean Torx screwdrivers, soldering irons, unused PIC chips, kynar wire, books about digital circuitry, access to the Internet, etc. are all now illegal?