24 Jan 2002 mjg59   » (Master)

UK law in somewhat more draconian than people expected shocker. Modchips are circumvention devices (not terribly surprising), and importing a game doesn't necessarily give you the right to make a transient copy of it in your system's memory. Quite what this is going to do to the import games industry isn't obvious, and it could probably be stretched to cover imported DVDs as well. Might be worth grabbing those region one DVDs while you still can...

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