a clear victory for the consumer in italy: a court decided that selling mod chips for the ps2 is legal on the grounds that, under italian consumer law, trying to control what someone does with a product after you've sold it to them is a ridiculous thing to try to do.



the judge in the case compared it, very sensibly, to fiat selling a car and then trying to say it can't be used by non-europeans or outside towns.



expect the e.u. to side with sony and the other pigopolists on this one and get that italian law changed a.s.a.p.