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Attack of the Mod Squads

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/27834.html

Attack of the Mod Squads

By Mark Rasch, SecurityFocus Online

Posted: 30/10/2002 at 07:55 GMT

On September 16, 2002, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Hong Kong distributor Lik Sang International Ltd, in the High Court of Hong Kong, alleging that the company had infringed copyrights associated with their various gaming systems.

In response, the company shut down, and when it came back up three weeks later, it was no longer selling mod chips. The affair is the strongest demonstration yet of how gaming manufacturers -- with the cooperation of various government agencies -- are cracking down not just on copyright infringement, but also on basic technology itself.

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