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Xbox Hacking Book Prepares to Fly Off Shelves
SecurityFocus posted an article today about a new book that covers hacking the Xbox. The book's author, Andrew "Bunnie" Huang, reports that it's selling well, even though the release date has not yet arrived. Presumably, this is because the book covers soldering techniques and adding features like blue LEDs and modchips to Xboxes, most of which violate the DMCA. If this stuff is interesting to you, you can order a copy from Huang's site. It amazes me that a book such as this could be banned, yet car service manuals can be sold in most bookstores.
Violates the DMCA, does it? Or, as I called it in my company's new EULA, the Holy Bible?
Let me tell you something: If I buy an Xbox, it BELONGS to me. It is mine. It becomes my property. It is no longer the property of Microsoft, or the store that sold it to me, or the video game makers who make programs for it, or the RIAA, or the MPAA, or some marijuana dealer who sells stolen stereos out of the back of his stolen pickup truck. The Xbox becomes MINE because I have PAID for the damn thing. If it is my property, I can do whatever the fsck I damn please with it, including:
- Smashing the thing to bits with a sledge hammer, videotaping the process, and put the video all over the Internet.
- Drilling a hole into the central processing unit and/or memory, again, videotaping the process.
- Remove the chips from it and build an experimental garage opener out of the damn thing.
- Solder blue LEDs to it.
- Put a modchip that allows me to run PalmOS on the thing so I can use it as a really big PDA at the office.
- Put it on eBay and try to charge $500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00 USD for it, even though nobody would bid.
- Or, anything else that I might desire.
I don't know what liberal democrats came up with this retarded DMCA but it has to get off the books faster than shit going through a tin horn, or the next set of anti freedom legislation is going to bring us yet another step closer to BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.I am going to go buy an xbox now and hack it. Just because it's illegal and for no other reason. I WANT to violate the DMCA just because the DMCA SUCKS.
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I have no intentions of buying or using ANY m$ games on the xbox, I just want to load Linux on it and use it to store all my mp3's, movies, etc. and use it as an entertainment center, as described in a previous
When it's sitting idle I want to set up a task to spam Microsoft with hate mail detailing how much I despise them and their crappy products but how grateful I am for them selling me such a cheap entertainment console.
I'll do it and I dare them to do anything about it.
They would be ill advised to attempt to stop me from modifying a peice of hardware that I buy and that belongs to *ME*... Possesion is 9/10's of the law. When it's in my possesion and I paid cash for it from a store and I have a bill of sale on it, it's mine to do with as I please.
Do be aware that I otherwise would have had no interest in doing any such thing until I was told that it was forbidden for me to do so..
Thanks Bill, your heavy handedness has pushed me to hate you..
Why should a book on hacking the xbox be any different?
It's not. The problem is that the people running slashdot, as well as most of the posters, are idiots.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.