Posted by: JeffS
Guy Found Guilty For Modding an X-Box - 06/07/2005 13:12
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?
Posted by: andym
Re: Guy Found Guilty For Modding an X-Box - 06/07/2005 13:19
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.
Posted by: eliceo
Re: Guy Found Guilty For Modding an X-Box - 06/07/2005 13:21
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.
Posted by: msaeger
Re: Guy Found Guilty For Modding an X-Box - 06/07/2005 16:20
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.