[Gllug] X-Box linux

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 14 May 2002, Sarah Ewen wrote:
>If we don't defend our copyright, we don't stand up in court against
>people who are manufacturing mod chips etc. At the end of the day the
>sad fact is there are plenty of people out there who seem happy to forge
>copies of PS2 games and so Sony has to make it hard for them to do.

What Sony has actually done is exploit the absurdity in UK law that
makes it illegal to play import computer games [1]. If this absurdity
did not exist, they would never have been able to block the production
of mod chips.

[1] Yes, really.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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