Australian body calls for mod-chip legalisation
News The Australian Consumers Association on Monday recommended legalising the use of mod chips as it cautiously greeted a recent proposal to introduce a levy on digital recording media and devices. The ACA has recommended that the use of mod chips be...
[June 21, 2004, 10:00]
Australian body calls for mod-chip legalisation
Talkback Plus, with certain mod chips, we could have more control over the consoles, to be able to move saved games and profiles between the consoles because a mod chip enables us to run a custom OS. "However, the mod chips also allow gaming enthusiasts to...
[June 22, 2004, 14:46]
Black-market tool for Xbox mod squad
News A Canadian man was sentenced last month for selling mod chips for the company's PlayStation 2 system, but Sony lost an Australian case that attempted to apply copyright-protection laws similar to the controversial US Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
[August 8, 2002, 13:55]
Xbox crackdown frustrates customers
News A Microsoft representative at the company's Australian headquarters confirmed last week that the company had taken legal action against Lik-Sang but declined to provide details. The company went into the manufacturing side of the mod chip business...
[October 10, 2002, 7:37]
Australians make Xbox hack freely available
News An Australian company that manufactures and sells a "mod chip" for Microsoft's Xbox video-game console has released the design for the hacking tool under an open-source license. Hibana chief executive Grant Sparks, known to the Xbox mod community...
[June 25, 2003, 14:27]
Aussie mod-chip veto criticised
News The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has decried a ruling by the Federal Court that mod chips designed to circumvent copy protection features on gaming consoles are illegal. While the ACCC supports Sony's right to crack down on the...
[August 1, 2003, 12:05]
Microsoft takes out Xbox hacker
News A representative in Microsoft's Australian subsidiary confirmed that the company has taken legal action against Hong Kong-based Lik Sang. The company went into the manufacturing side of the mod chip business last August when it acquired OpenXbox, a...
[October 3, 2002, 14:05]
Xbox mod chip released
News A company based in Melbourne claims to have released a mod-chip for Microsoft's Xbox games console that allows users to play homebrew games, original imports, run debug executables and is Linux-compatible.
[January 24, 2003, 8:30]
Sony's mod chip battle heats up
News Sony Corporation Entertainment has accused the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission of using rhetoric and misleading information in a courtroom dispute between the two over the use of modification chips in PlayStation2 consoles.
[February 14, 2002, 10:12]
Aussie mod-chip veto criticised
Talkback This Australian court ruling is a bad mistake. I believe that those region coding on video games or DVDs is not a copyright issue but venders' sales strategy.
[August 1, 2003, 16:48]
