It is especially interesting since Sony sells music and MP3 stuff.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Joffe" <marcjoffe@YAHOO.CA>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [EE]: PS2 mod chip provider jailed


> It is not Sony's responsibility to reimburse the state. Do families of
> murder victims pay for the murderer to sit in jail? Would you expect a
> store that is robbed to pay for the thief to sit in jail?
>
> Also, if you put all your effort in to a device that you wanted to sell
> wouldn't you want it protected.
>
> MArc
>
>
> On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 09:46, Marc Nicholas wrote:
> > And Sony are going to reimburse the State the $2500/week it costs to
> > incarcerate him? (I think not...)
> >
> > God Bless the DMCA...
> >
> > -marc
> >
> >
> > On 14/4/03 09:01, "Russell McMahon" <apptech@PARADISE.NET.NZ> wrote:
> >
> > > Interesting:
> > >
> > > "Virginia man sentenced to 5 months for selling PS2 mod chips
> > > NEW YORK (April 13  4:53 p.m. EDT) - A Virginia man has been sentenced
to
> > > five months in
> > > prison for operating a Web site that helped video game enthusiasts
> > > bypass anti-piracy technology on popular games."
> > >
> > >
> > >       RM
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