Student Arrested for Modding Consoles

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/tech/Cal-State-Student-Faces-10-Year-Prison-Term-for-Playing-with-Video-Games-52386872.html

by Goronmon • 17 years ago

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michael_h• 17 years ago

Immigration and Customs Enforcement? Console modification issues sound unrelated to their task.

rawr• 17 years ago

Pirated games come largely from China.

stse• 17 years ago

Not really. Pirated games are largely downloaded from the Internet.

krschultz• 17 years ago

"Customs" -> key word

jpwagner• 17 years ago

because of custom modifications? ;P

yread• 17 years ago

Im still struggling to get to grips that when I buy (license) software I can't disassemble or modify it. But hardware?

Herring2• 17 years ago

You 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.

andylei• 17 years ago

it'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-jailbr...

panotpon• 17 years ago

And THIS is why iPhone Dev Team only ask for food donation.

Goronmon• 17 years ago

My 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,”

Herring2• 17 years ago

Last I heard it was also contributing to terrorism.

pmichaud• 17 years ago

None 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.

rms• 17 years ago

Was he really just modding the systems or also installing games for people?

travisjeffery• 17 years ago

Seems like someone squealed to the Po-Po, if I were him I'ld love to get my hands on them.

Student Arrested for Modding Consoles

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