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Student Arrested for Modding Consoles
- rms 17y agoWas he really just modding the systems or also installing games for people?
- michael_h 17y agoImmigration and Customs Enforcement? Console modification issues sound unrelated to their task.
- rawr 17y agoPirated games come largely from China.
- stse 17y agoNot really. Pirated games are largely downloaded from the Internet.
- jcl 17y agoRight. The real issue is that some consoles cannot play these downloaded games without mod chips, which the guy imported and resold. The DMCA makes it illegal to "disseminate" devices that circumvent copy-protection, which gets Customs involved.
- krschultz 17y ago"Customs" -> key word
- jpwagner 17y agobecause of custom modifications? ;P
- yread 17y agoIm still struggling to get to grips that when I buy (license) software I can't disassemble or modify it. But hardware?
- andylei 17y agoit's not in this article, but he wasn't arrested for modding his own hardware. he was running a home business where he was essentially selling modded hardware. from: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/game-console-jailbreaking-arrest/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/game-console-jailbr...
- Herring 17y agoYou can probably do whatever you want to your hardware. They're trying to stop businesses forming around piracy. Like the article said, there's a lot of money in pretending bits can't be copied.
- panotpon 17y agoAnd THIS is why iPhone Dev Team only ask for food donation.
- Goronmon 17y agoMy favorite quote from the article: “Piracy, counterfeiting and other intellectual property rights violations not only cost U.S. businesses jobs and billions of dollars a year in lost revenue, they can also pose significant health and safety risks to consumers,”
- Herring 17y agoLast I heard it was also contributing to terrorism.
- pmichaud 17y agoNone of those numbers would hold up to any level of scrutiny. I don't have time to debunk it, but I would put money where my mouth is.
- travisjeffery 17y agoSeems like someone squealed to the Po-Po, if I were him I'ld love to get my hands on them.