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#259790 - 06/07/2005 13:12 Guy Found Guilty For Modding an X-Box
JeffS carpal tunnel Registered: 14/01/2002 Posts: 2858 Loc: Atlanta, GA	Article here. No suprise that they guy was convicted for piracy; however it is interesting that he was also found guilty for modding the console. Not a good precident I think. This was the UK; what is the law in the States? _________________________ -Jeff Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings; they did it by killing all those who opposed them.
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#259791 - 06/07/2005 13:19 Re: Guy Found Guilty For Modding an X-Box [Re: JeffS]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3995 Loc: Manchester UK	Yes, obviously selling an HD with 80-odd games on it is grounds enough, but apparently it was removing the copy protection that did it, that was the illegal bit of modding. _________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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#259792 - 06/07/2005 13:21 Re: Guy Found Guilty For Modding an X-Box [Re: JeffS]
eliceo enthusiast Registered: 18/02/2002 Posts: 335	I think under the dmca it is illegal to reverse engineer any technology that deals with copy protection. I get the piracy part. Bad pirates. But saying the only/primary use for a modded console is piracy is another thing.
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#259793 - 06/07/2005 13:27 Re: Guy Found Guilty For Modding an X-Box [Re: eliceo]
g_attrill old hand Registered: 14/04/2002 Posts: 1172 Loc: Hants, UK	Quote: I think under the dmca it is illegal to reverse engineer any technology that deals with copy protection. The difference is that this was in the UK using the as-yet untested EU Copyright Directive. Then again it was only in a magistrate's court, it would really need to be in a Crown Court before it becomes really interesting. Gareth
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#259794 - 06/07/2005 16:20 Re: Guy Found Guilty For Modding an X-Box [Re: JeffS]
msaeger carpal tunnel Registered: 23/09/2000 Posts: 3608 Loc: Minnetonka, MN	I think the deal with modding the xbox is microsoft has in the eula with it that you can't modify it so if you do you are violating the eula. _________________________ Matt
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#259795 - 06/07/2005 16:42 Re: Guy Found Guilty For Modding an X-Box [Re: msaeger]
g_attrill old hand Registered: 14/04/2002 Posts: 1172 Loc: Hants, UK	Quote: I think the deal with modding the xbox is microsoft has in the eula with it that you can't modify it so if you do you are violating the eula. The EULA is also supposedly untested in UK/EU law - the idea is that it does not form a contract. Again, this person was prosecuted under the EU Copyright Directive, or more precisely the The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003, nothing else, apparently not even for selling the copyright software on the consoles. Gareth
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