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."

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Re:ESA?

[the_mad_poster]

Yea, right. And I guess you'd like your local police force to stop targetting speeders, drunk drivers, and robbers so that they can focus all of their resources entirely on murderers and rapists, right? Because the appropriate approach to crime is to focus on the top 5% of the worst crimes and just ignore the other 95%, right?

Idiot.

Re:Some people's children...

[aichpvee]

c-a-t... that spells DOG!!!!!!

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