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Tim Lister of the south Sydney Greens attended the Sydney forum, and posted a summary. An excerpt:

One rebel, the chap who built the modchip that Sony got exercised about, had a good time denigrating the illogicality of the legal system, that made it illegal to modify legal hardware that he legally owned to play legal datafiles that he legally owned, but that was the high spot of the day. I talked to him afterwards, and he has a lot of support, but unfortunately nearly all of it from people with no money; and it will cost him $38,000 just to file his appeal.

Read the whole thing.