Another PlayStation2 Flaw DVD & DeCSS6/5/2000; 7:09:33 AM March 17, 2000: "Sony's gamemaking unit, Sony Computer Entertainment, said it had found users of PS2 -- launched two weeks ago in Japan amid huge publicity and frenzied demand -- could manipulate it to watch DVD software sold overseas."

Hah! This is funny not because of the flaw; many other DVD players can be easily manipulated to remove copy-protection and watch DVDs from other regions. It's funny because Sony is one of the leaders of the consortium that created the rules in the first place! Sony can't even follow the rules.

Also amusing: "'We have not launched a recall or stopped shipments, although we can't completely dismiss for now the possibility of a recall,'" a Sony spokesman said." Combined with the fact that the DVD software is getting over-written by some Playstation 2 games, it's getting increasingly difficult for Sony to avoid a recall on this system that is very importent to their console gaming plans.

As The Register said in the tagline for this article: "Sony may fix copy protection in mass PS2 recall: Don't send them back".