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Arrests Made Near D.C. Over Modded Game Consoles

Posted by timothy on from the fine-line-between-clever-and-stupid dept.

multiOSfreak writes "According to this Reuters articl, two video game store employees have been arrested for modding video game consoles. From the article: 'Authorities arrested two store employees on charges of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and conspiracy to traffic in a device that circumvents technological protection measures, the ESA said.'" It's not clear from the article whether the modded consoles were sold without copies of the games which had been installed on their hard drives, which would seem to be the most important distinction between convenience for buyers and actually ripping off game makers. Update: 12/08 22:43 GMT by T : This thread on boing-boing includes a comment from a would-be customer who says (among other things) that store employees "were also preloading the XBox systems with tons of emulators (arcade and console) and as many ROMs as they could find."

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  1. Re:Wow... by Hatta · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...and I'll bet you thought the war on drugs was bad.

    Give me a fucking break. Do you know that there are today over 300,000 prisoners of the war on drugs in the US?

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  2. U.S. can't find Bin Laden, but spends $$ on this? by bADlOGIN · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Great use of our tax dollars. You'd think this country was run by a bunch of greedy corporations and thier front special interest groups. Oh wait...

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  3. Re:ESA? by the_mad_poster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wow. You're dumb. Snipe hunt time: show me where I made any such comparison, idiot-boy.

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  4. Re:ESA? by the_mad_poster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Again... please show me where this comparison is.... I see sarcastic remarks drawing a parrellel... I see no comparison...

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  5. Re:Ripped off games. by dead+sun · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Chalk one up to stupidity then I guess. Yeesh, why'd they think they could get away with that? Why would anybody purchase one of these and leave a paper trail if you can do it yourself?

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