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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Those companies have no employees in Australia?
They incur no costs whatsoever in doing business there?
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Insufficient argument for the High Court to consider it justified the geo blocking. And Sony has a bricks and mortar presence in the form of stores and offices in Aus.
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Sony PlayStations were designed so that games bought in some parts of the globe weren't playable on PlayStations sold in others, an absurd restriction that encouraged a Sydney engineer named Eddy Stevens to develop a $45 computer chip that turned any PlayStation into a device that could play any PlayStation game.
Sony took him all the way to the High Court, where it lost in a unanimous judgment that held it was legal for Australians to circumvent attempts to prevent them accessing products they had bought.
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