Sony Loses Aussie Playstation Suit (yipee!)
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Sony Loses Aussie Playstation Suit (yipee!)
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Sony Loses Aussie Playstation Suit
Mon Jul 29,10:06 AM ET
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Australia's consumer watchdog on Monday hailed a Federal Court decision giving Sony PlayStation owners the right to modify their consoles to play imported and copied games.
The Australian subsidiary of Sony was suing Sydney man Eddy Johnson for selling and installing modifications to its PlayStation machines, claiming his actions breached copyright laws.
Johnson was adding a computer chip to the Australian-made consoles which gave owners the chance to play games bought from anywhere in the world, or authorized copies they had made themselves as a backup for the purchased game.
Without such a chip, the coding in PlayStation means it will play games only from the region in which the machines are manufactured.
Late Friday, the Federal Court in Melbourne ruled Sony's region coding system
Sony Loses Aussie Playstation Suit
Mon Jul 29,10:06 AM ET
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Australia's consumer watchdog on Monday hailed a Federal Court decision giving Sony PlayStation owners the right to modify their consoles to play imported and copied games.
The Australian subsidiary of Sony was suing Sydney man Eddy Johnson for selling and installing modifications to its PlayStation machines, claiming his actions breached copyright laws.
Johnson was adding a computer chip to the Australian-made consoles which gave owners the chance to play games bought from anywhere in the world, or authorized copies they had made themselves as a backup for the purchased game.
Without such a chip, the coding in PlayStation means it will play games only from the region in which the machines are manufactured.
Late Friday, the Federal Court in Melbourne ruled Sony's region coding system
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