Implications for Playstation copy protect chips in Australia

[Blue]

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.a...55E421,00.html
To paraphrase the above, a guy that installs "crack" chips into playstations won a court case in the High Court (it doesn't go any higher) against Sony. The ramifications seem to extend to DVD's. The logical extension will be Blu Ray. One can assume this also applies to DRM in Blu Ray. Lookout for the court cases to occur as soon as the launch if Blu Ray carry out their threats with DRM (not that they need to anymore).

[Patrick]

The High Court’s decision specified, however, that mod-chipping Playstation consoles to play pirated games was still a breach of copyright law, and thus a prosecutable offence.

The ruling will allow mod-chipping of consoles in order bypass region codes, allowing Australian gamers to purchase games from overseas, perhaps at reduced prices, and play them on their Australian Playstation consoles

Has nothing to do with Blu-ray at all, only region coding for the playstation. It also does not affect the copyright laws or the protection of them. Blu-rays protections will be fine and as it should be. Not to mention this is in Austalia, it wont happen here or in Japan.