Well, that depends. The modding is so you can play legitimate games and not pirated ones. Why should someone in Europe not be allowed to play a NTSC game coz no one picked it up for development there? I want to be able to play WRC2 but I can\'t (we don\'t have PAL TVs nor do I have a mod chip). If I had a mod and BOUGHT the REAL game, it\'s no skin off Sony\'s back.
I have a modded 1995 PSX so I could play Japanese games that never came here. They\'re not pirated games, just imports. Modding has its place in the gaming world.
And for the record, not all modded PSX and PS2 consoles were meant for pirated games. Gamers just want to play imports.