Mod Chips Legal In the UK

An anonymous reader writes "Good news out of the UK! Techdirt reports that an appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling and has now said that mod chips do not violate copyright laws. The case involved a mod chip seller, who imported mod chips for the XBox from Hong Kong and would sell the chips or mod the Xbox's himself. He was charged with copyright infringement and found guilty by a lower court. The appeals court has dismissed all charges, however."

Re:This is ridiculous...

[Hognoxious]

After I buy something, it is _mine_ ! Case closed.

Nope, I'm pretty certain you have to open it to put the new chip in.

Re:This is ridiculous...

[Vectronic]

They wouldnt know, but if you started cutting out pieces of your own brain and selling it at the street corner, its likely it would raise some eyebrows, and thats what this guy was doing, selling the mod chips.

Re:Expect anti-modchip legislation in 3, 2, 1...

[drsquare]

And the best part is, under new legislation, mod-chip sellers can be held for 42 days without charge.

Re:Expect anti-modchip legislation in 3, 2, 1...

[Bastard of Subhumani]

I doubt he really has an opinion on modchips.

I liek mudkips.

Yours sincerently,

    GWB.

HEY!

[reddburn]

Unless it's licensed, not sold :)

Don't copy that floppy.

Re:This is ridiculous...

[reddburn]

The usual tax evasion practices of big software and hardware vendors are outright illegal and forbidden by law.

At the same time? Is THAT legal?

Re:This is ridiculous...

[tehcyder]

I once saw a conference with bill gates, where a child popped his hand up to ask a question. We never got to hear the question. He got as far as "my dad bought me a copy of windows". He interrupted to say "he didn't buy it, he /licensed/ it" before going off on a diatribe that instead of owning a tangible object (a CD with windows on it), you are licensing the 1s and 0s on it. He was about 12 years old. What a cunt.

Hey, the child was only asking a question...