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Microsoft Shuts Down Lik Sang

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the real-life-consequences dept.

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.

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  1. Well, there's always... by -=OmegaMan=- · · Score: 5, Informative

    Easybuy.

    For now, at least.

    Note: I have no affiliation with LikSang, or EasyBuy - they're just pretty similar. LikSang had a larger variety of video-game oriented products, but EasyBuy has most of the more popular modchips as well.

    --

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  2. Re:Score one for Tha Man by TRACK-YOUR-POSITION · · Score: 5, Informative
    If you modded your dreamcast you totally wasted your time--the thing could play ISOs out of the box.

    If you thing Sony and Nintendo didn't have the cash to shutdown Lik-Sang, well, there's a second reason for me to think you're an idiot. They didn't shutdown Lik-Sang because they realized people don't like soldering crap to their expensive consoles, and there really wasn't a big effect on piracy here. Microsoft just went after them because they're obstinate bastards who want to defeat the linux xbox hackers at all cost. Both the hackers and Microsoft are motivated by ideology--linux on Xbox is without value to hackers and without cost to Microsoft--hell, Sony even sells linux kits to encourage people to develop ps2 development skills.

    Yeah, modchips sure ruined the life of PS2 and PS1 ... probably the most successful consoles ever.

    Bottom line, the hardware belongs to however buys it, not whoever sells it. That's what "buying stuff" means.

  3. Re:As a general rule by harvardian · · Score: 4, Informative
    The fact that this post was modded up shows how zealous and unthinking so many people on this site are.

    The EULA doesn't have ANYTHING TO DO with the shutting down of this website. Microsoft would most likely be suing Lik Sang for violating either the DMCA or IP rights (more likely IP rights, I would think, but IANAL). Microsoft has said before that they're NOT interested in punishing individual mod chippers, just mass distributors of mod chips.

    Thus, you MAY do whatever you want to YOUR XBox and Microsoft won't care. The only caveat to this is if you're logged onto XBox Live -- Microsoft has reserved the right in the Live EULA to revoke the login rights of people with mod chips. This may piss some of you off, but do you really want people with mod chips on XBox Live? No, it could turn into CounterStrike before PunkBuster, with half of the people online cheating.