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Microsoft Shuts Down Lik Sang
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has taken legal action, shutting down popular import gaming site Lik Sang for distributing X-box mod chips. Lik Sang is a popular import gaming site based out of Hong Kong. The full article (MSNBC) can be found here." Several people have pointed to the same story on news.com.
The chips typically allow a game machine to play legally and illegally copied discs, run unauthorized software and play game discs intended for other geographic regions.
What the hell is "unauthorized software", when did Micro$haft get the right to tell me what LEGAL sw I can run on MY bought and paid for hardware.
Wake-up you dumb-ass American comsumers your about to get the big one up your shaft!
Si vis pacem, para bellum! For evil to succeed good men need only do nothing!
Shutting down mod chips does NOT mean you're unable to do what you want with your hardware. You can design and build your own mod chip, put it in there and go to town, no big deal. Or turn it into a toaster if you like. :)
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
-Hoban Washburn
That line of reasoning is flawed. YOu can still do all of those things with your hardware and I doubt Microsoft would care at all -- turn around and take your ubermodchip and make a business around it an they might take notice, in a not-so-nice way. In that it's VERY different from a soldering iron. Your mod chip is meant to do one thing and one thing only: circumvent some kind of hardware based protection they've put in there for a reason. Don't compare it to a tool like a soldering iron, or a screwdriver. THAT's bullshit.
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
-Hoban Washburn
Modded dreamcast that i bought from lik-sang to play imports not copies.
Turns out the boot disk later replaced the need for the mod.
And the mod chip for the PS1's do and still dent the PS1's profit margin for DEVELOPERS. I could care less how much Sony makes, that wasn't my point.
Bottom line, the hardware belongs to however buys it, not whoever sells it. That's what "buying stuff" means.
So in your opinion that means you can steal the software to, as that is the SOLE PURPOSE OF THE MOD-CHIP. They're note being sold as "to run linux" or anything other then invalidating the copy protections of the device you own.
Your understanding of the realities of this world is frighteningly obtuse.
Like MS gives a toss about other companies. The only interest they have in the X-box is to make the X-box2 a platform for DRM; that's why they're so keen on stamping out mod chips: they're posturing to the guys in Hollywood that they can be trusted to keep user's sticky fingers out of their product when the time comes.
You might want to try to pull your head out of your ass, get off the zealot train and look around. It helps sometimes.
It's the only language they understand.
Let me know when you're finished with them. Bring your BFG2000. I'm sure there will be blood and gore and all that.