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More on Microsoft vs. Lik Sang
Levendis47 writes "CNET's News.com is running an article on Microsoft's legal manuevers which have successfully shut down the Lik Sang ecomm store where they've been selling various game system mod chips including the OpenXBox Mod Chip. This leads me to two questions (and I'll admit my ignorance, faux or not, in order to get discussion on this topic): 1) When a customer purchases an XBox (or any game system for that matter) are you intrinsically "signing" an end-user agreement in the purchase that makes modding the device illegal? 2) Could a non-profit org setup an effort to have mod chips produced and "distributed" at the cost of production w/o legal repurcussions? (i.e. would not making a profit on XBox's hardware mods protect you from their wrath?) 3) I understand the whole DRM aspect of mod'ing for playing copied games, BUT, what about legit gray-hacks like the Mandrake Linux XBox project and such? It would seem to me that in the long haul, Microsoft would support such efforts because they could sell more devices (and potentially more software if they licensed an opensource validation library)... "
Well if you count Europe, Japan, Australia and Far East countries I think you will find more wealthy peaople there than in the whole of the USA
Dr. Weasolito, the self-proclaimed world's only lawyer able to speak with cockroaches has sued McDonald's for Genocide. "The massacre has been going on since 2003 when the Supreme Court decided that cockroaches could be included in 'Cow-free-Hamburgers'. It has to stop now." says the 'roachy lawyer who is also the CEO of Vermin Inc. which will distribute the money among the critters if he wins against the evil Empire.