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PlayStation loses legal fight to prevent third party add-ons being sold for its games
Sony has lost its fight to prevent third party add-ons being sold for PlayStation games.
The European Court of Justice has dismissed Sony's claim that the Action Replay cheat software sold by UK company Datel infringed its copyright. In a non-binding opinion prepared for the case earlier this year, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar insisted it was not illegal to use any copyrighted work in a way that may differ from the creator's intentions. Yesterday we reported that former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden - who served as CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment America and chairman of Worldwide Studios before leaving the company in 2019 - was asked if the console industry's current business model was sustainable, given the increasing development costs associated with the ongoing pursuit of incrementally more powerful hardware.
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