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Australia's Federal Court Holds Up Sale of PSJailbreak

By james_fudge

Australia's Federal Court has temporarily barred the import and sale of a USB device that gives its users the power to hack the PlayStation 3 (it's described as a plug-in copy protection bypass). No doubt Sony is delighted by the temporary injunction against the PSJailbreak USB modchip, but now the company must convince the court that the PSJailbreak is illegal. If Sony can't convince the court, then the device will hit retail shelves in Australia sometime in Sept.

Expect a ruling sometime early next week as Sony's clock runs down to its August 31 deadline. While Sony is believed to be pursuing legal action in other countries besides Australia in an attempt to fight the PSJailbreak, it faces another problem: cheap knock offs of the device that have already been created - which means more court action.

With America basically making jailbreaking some devices legal, it will be interesting to see how a lawsuit against such a device here might play out. Chances are we'll get to see a this new device turns up all over the world.

Source: gi.biz

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 27, 2010 (boomark / email).