British PSP owners can sleep tight, Sony will not come after them to take their PSPs away. Or at least that's what Stan Glasgow, Sony's president of consumer sales, told CNET News.com.

SCEE (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) had originally planned to ship the PSP into Europe by the end of March, around the time of the handheld's US launch. However, put back the release, a number of times, to 1 September.

This created an opportunity for enterprising firms and individuals to buy PSPs in the US and resell them over here. US retailers and distributors are not permitted to sell PSPs to overseas customers - on penalty, presumably, of losing their ability to sell the device to locals.

The Guardian claimed it had seen a copy of SCEE's legal challenge to PSP importers, in which Sony demanded importers to hand over details of their customers.

SCEE told GamesIndustry.biz that the suggestive clause in its writ against the importers was standard part of all such lawsuits, and would be used to help determine the level of damages the company claims to have suffered from the unauthorized, or 'grey', imports.