I know of 2 big players in the modchip scene about to resurect there modchips sales sections in the UK and a few big sellers that operate behoind the scenes already got stock on the way.
The question i have, the charges/allegations that have been quashed in MrMods case do they specificly tie to him? I was thinking that the ruling the judge made was for charges against the mentioned trader with specifics to this case, ie 'in this case the copyright infringement was not the case'.
I do think that this will lead to a free for all with modchip installlers (plus a new wave of softmodders looking to increase the quick buck) but i doubt FACT and ELSPA will lie down to that and act as a law into them ownselves as they have done for years anyway.
I would like to know exactly where we stand on this (waiting on lawyers advice) as id like to know if customs will still seize mods and similar devices.
Any chip that contains any of the companies involved Intelectual Property/Code etc will still be illegal. I would imagine we will see lots of chip coming with linux on them or firmware that only allow region free for the UK market but the ability for the end user to upgrade to illegal/copyrighted code/firmware to be added at his/her own leasure.
I would like to see chips that only alllow the use of region locked games or blank devices to keep installers like myself in the clear and a service to users who cannot or dont want to do the upgrade themselves.
At the moment it kinda feels good to be an installer in the UK
(we see how long that lasts
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