Arrests Made Near D.C. Over Modded Game Consoles

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."

Comments

This is stupid.

[Janitha]

So I assume they will also ban hard drives and blank cd's and arrest all who sell them if they start arresting like this.

Yesh, even the editors don't RTFA

[incompetent_bitch]

If someone had bothered to read the article, it specifically states that the Xboxes that were sold with mods already had up to 15 games installed on the larger HDD along with the appropriate software. All out in the open of the store, for all to see. Seems like someone was asking to get picked up.