he sure was i mean adding bigger hard drive thought yeah ok, but then he shot him self in foot by including 80 ripped games foool
There's a guy on eBay that's selling them with 50 games loaded and he has been reported but they did nothing.
"This case sets a major precedent which marks a milestone in the fight against piracy," said Michael Rawlinson, ELSPAs deputy director general. "It sends a clear message to anyone tempted to become involved in chipping consoles that this is a criminal offence and will be dealt with accordingly." The legislation is also not restricted to those who modify consoles and sell them on, but also renders it illegal for console owners to modify their own hardware. i think the main focus of this case was his modding the xbox, not the questionably illegal action of loading games onto the harddrive. the rule went if you own a game, a movie, a cd, or an xbox. its yours, you can take it apart, make backups, edit it, reformat it, reverse engineer it, modify it, or smash it with a sledge hammer....because its your property. nowdays no one owns anything, its leased, maybe they use a different word but its the same meaning. you pay money to use a product under the terms of a contract. you dont own the product you lease it. but do they tell you that when you buy it? untill people start suing these large corperations for fraud its only going to get worse.
I disagree socialdrone. Had it been a guy modding Xbox's, and say loading linux on it, while it may have gone to court, I veyr much doubt he would have got anything more than a slap on the wrist. However, because he was selling it with 80 games on it, he got a pretty big sentence. It's also likely if he wasn't selling the games he wouldn't have been caught - ELSPA and the like have bigger fish to fry.
are you sure? why didnt michael rawlinson say that it sends a clear message to anyone tempted to become involved in pirating videogames that this is a criminal offence and will be dealt with accordingly? he said chipping consoles...i think a guy selling am xbox with a bunch of pirated videogames is less of a threat to the industry than people modifying their consoles to play imports, emulators, linux, and homebrew software. these corperations have invested a ton of money in controling what you buy and where you buy it. they sign multimillion dallor marketing deals to get you the consumer to buy the products they want you to buy. thats what the whole napster and peer to peer filesharing bullshit is all about. control. record sales were up but at the same time sales for madonna, metalica, and other mainstream crap were down. people werent buying less cd's, they were buying more. people were being exposed to bands that did not have that marketing machine behind them, and because of that a diverse range of music was being purchased. this created problems for the record industry, they had signed these massive contracts for these albums that less and less people were buying...they lost control. instead of adapting to what the people wanted, the record industry decided to adapt the people to what they wanted. its the same principle with videogames. microsoft wants everyone who plays online to use microsoft live, to pay for microsoft live, to buy all the downloadable content through them and no one else. they dont want people buying halo the videogame and playing it on some nameless server for free. they dont want you importing games from out side your region. they dont want you buying games from independant videogame stores...its all about control. they want you to buy from their select range of products and no one else.
Selling a game console with 80 games preloaded on it is clearly wrong. The guy got what was coming to him. Modding them and then selling them, however, I find perfectly fine.
yeah i agree if he had just modded it so it could play import games that would be fine. but no, he modded it stuffed it full of 80 xboxs games the decided to sell it, the guy is a moron he had it coming
