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Sony Mod-chip Lawsuit Leaves DVDs In The Clear
News In a summary ruling on Tuesday, Judge Robin Jacob awarded Sony £45,000 costs and £15,000 in damages against Newport-based Channel Technology, which had been manufacturing the Messiah mod-chip. Judge Jacob acknowledged that the part of the Messiah...
[January 25, 2002, 17:29]
Aussie Mod-chip Veto Criticised
News A mod chip could not be a circumvention device, because it did not defeat a TPM. 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...
[August 1, 2003, 12:05]
Australian Body Calls For Mod-chip Legalisation
News The competition regulator argued that the mod chip circumvented an artificial trade barrier stopping Australians benefiting from global competition in game title market. The Australian Consumers Association on Monday recommended legalising the use...
[June 21, 2004, 10:00]
Xbox Mod Chip Discontinued
News The information site for Enigmah-X, the second Xbox mod chip to go into commercial circulation, was replaced late on Tuesday with a brief message: "After speaking to lawyers we feel that we must not do this project anymore.
[June 27, 2002, 8:36]
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]
Xbox Mod Chip Delivers 'homebrew Software'
News The Xtender, a "mod chip" intended to be added to the main circuit board of the Xbox, went on sale last weekend through retailers such as Hong Kong-based Lik Sang. For starters, using the mod chips requires disassembling the Xbox case and affixing...
[May 29, 2002, 14:34]
Aussie Mod-chip Veto Criticised
Talkback I believe that those region coding on video games or DVDs is not a copyright issue but venders' sales strategy. This Australian court ruling is a bad mistake.
[August 1, 2003, 16:48]
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]
Xbox Mod Chip Released
Talkback we looking for the wholesaler of the PS2 and XBOX mod chips.
[October 30, 2003, 5:16]
Sony's Mod Chip Battle Heats Up
News The embedded code on the discs -- which the chip circumvents -- only serves to prevent PAL PlayStations reading the discs. Sony Corporation Entertainment has accused the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission of using rhetoric and...
[February 14, 2002, 10:12]
New Xbox Security Cracked By Linux Fans
News The Xbox Linux group that Green works with, along with a group working for the mod chip company Xecuter, both managed to exploit this weakness to gain control of the machine. The newer units, which began to arrive on store shelves about three weeks...
[October 14, 2002, 16:26]
Black-market Tool For Xbox Mod Squad
News Another "mod chip" that allows Microsoft's Xbox video game console to play copied games has entered the market, despite renewed legal efforts to thwart such chips. The new X-ecuter chip for the Xbox includes several new design components, including...
[August 8, 2002, 13:55]
'Mod' Squad Hacks Away At Xbox
News Instead, the chips are used mainly to run import games -- the bulk of mod chip activity has been centered in Europe, where games have been slow to arrive from the United States -- and experiment with homemade software.
[June 19, 2002, 8:38]
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]
Xbox Hackers Attempt To Blackmail Microsoft
News A group of Xbox-security researchers say they have found a way to run Linux on the Xbox games console without a mod chip and will go public with the technique if Microsoft won't talk to them about releasing an official Linux boot loader.
[June 27, 2003, 15:27]
Xbox Crackdown Frustrates Customers
News The company went into the manufacturing side of the mod chip business last August when it acquired OpenXbox, a mod chip design intended to allow upgrades. David, a British pub owner who also declined to give his full name, said he sent Lik-Sang...
[October 10, 2002, 7:37]
Hackers Build Movie Player For Xbox
News But it can be run on an Xbox outfitted with a mod chip, a gray-market add-on that allows the consoles to run homemade software and bypass security measures built into the game console. The software is available on several sites, most notably that...
[June 12, 2002, 9:13]
Sony Wins Landmark Case Against Mod Chips
News Back in 2002, Sony was awarded damages against Newport-based Channel Technology, which had been manufacturing the Messiah mod chip -- the same chip that Ball was accused of selling. Sony had brought its case against David Ball, a UK citizen, who...
[July 22, 2004, 14:10]
Linux For Xbox Released
News To run, the homebrew software requires an Xbox outfitted with a "mod chip," a gray-market add-on that typically has to be soldered to the Xbox's main circuit board. Besides a mod chip, the Xbox version of Linux also requires a USB keyboard and...
[October 9, 2002, 10:45]
Xbox Linux Team Issues Antitrust Plea
News The Xbox Linux project was able to allow a PC version of Mandrake Linux to run on the Xbox by building software that bypassed the console's normal boot-up mechanism, but did not have to alter the system's hardware -- other than using a mod chip.
[March 7, 2003, 13:50]
