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Bringing a nearly 5 year case to a close, an appeals court has denied the latest in Sony's efforts to have its PS2 classified as a computer, stating its findings that it is indeed instead a console, and therefore ineligible for a refund on the €50 million (£34mil) duty Sony alleges it has overpaid on videogame customs tariffs.
The original ruling on the PS2's status found that even if the unit's primary function could not be determined, and even given that programs could be compiled by home users for the machine using YIBASIC, its functionality as CD player, DVD player, and games player still qualified it for the tariff.
In a postscript, the ruling judge also criticized Sony's appeal, saying it "goes beyond what can be regarded as acceptable written advocacy" and "exceeds the bounds of propriety" by nature of its "frequent and unnecessary resort to hyperbole."