PS3 Jailbreak Now Legal In Spain

[wraggster]

Spanish gamer site NicaGamerz.com have reported that it's now legal to sell the PS3 Jailbreak modchip in Spain (Google translation of Spanish original). According to the article, one reason for the legal ruling is because Sony removed the ability to run GNU/Linux on the console. One can only wonder if Sony will soon rush out a firmware update that will re-enable the OtherOS feature, and appeal the court decision. Oh the irony of that thought. The legal ruling was made on the 13th December (Google translation). There are only 5 days to appeal, starting from that date.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/16/0819245/PS3-Jailbreak-Now-Legal-In-Spain

[Fonixx]

Spain already has a culture of not seeing piracy as a bad thing making it one of the worst countries in the world for rampant levels of piracy, and now they've given people a clear concience to do even more. I mean i'm all for getting all the potential out of any hardware i paid for, but you'd think the Spanish government would at least have the sense to wait for a few more countries to legalise it first so they don't look so bad.