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Thu, 22 Jul 2004
The law is an ass
The stupidity of our legal systems seems to know no bounds. There’s a story in The Register that states:
The UK High Court has judged that the sale, advertisement, possession for commercial purposes and use of PlayStation 2 modification chips is illegal […]
To balance that slightly, it seems that the relevant Italian court has gone the other way, recognising that it’s up to the owners of these things to determine how they will use them.
I’m not sure what it is that makes lawmakers think they deserve respect, either for themselves or their laws or those who enforce their laws, when the laws they create have such absurd interpretations—clearly, the task of the law is to protect the most wealthy and powerful while riding roughshod over the rest of us.
| Posted at: 11:56 | Path: /technology | permalink |