Re: [Fsfe-uk] BBC running story on Mod Chips for games consoles case - EUCD

[robert w hall]

In article <address@hidden>, Simon Waters
<address@hidden> writes
>MJ Ray wrote:
>|
>| Well, the headline definitely seems inaccurate, as this isn't a new ban,
>| but our beloved justices applying the ban. Read the full judgment for
>| yourself at http://www.bailii.org.uk/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2004/1738.html - I
>| think the summaries are in paragraphs 33-34, 36 and 41 onwards.
>
>The logic that Sony will undertake to replace disks if a backup is
>needed is very interesting.

This has come up several times in the Playstation2-linux newsgroups,
where the proprietary RTE on CD 1 is essential to boot the GPL'd system
(on the user's hard drive, but originally on CD 2).

After an initial period when it looked like Sony appeared  just to say
'tuff, buy another kit' to those whose RTE-disks went down, they seem to
have settled into a fairly standard replacement policy. 

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robert w hall