Xbox Modders Charged Under DMCA

JamesAlfaro wrote to mention a News.com article about a pair of game store owners charged with Xbox modding. From the article: "Jason Jones and Jonathan Bryant, two Los Angeles residents who own the ACME Game Store on Melrose Ave., allegedly sold Xbox game systems that had been modified by Pei Cai, of Pico Rivera, Calif. Cai allegedly equipped the Xbox consoles with modification chips and large hard drives to allow the user to copy rented or borrowed games onto the device for future playback. Buyers would pay from $225 to more than $500 for the changes."

Comments

Re:But where's the problem?

[ncc74656]

Judging by how the summary was presented, it was submitted to troll us up into a frenzy about the evil DMCA. If, for example, it mentioned the part where the drives had 77 pirated video games, you could argue I was wrong.

Zonk's getting to be as bad as michael and JonKatz ever were...maybe even worse. More and more of the articles he posts resemble propaganda pieces more than hard news.

Op-ed pieces aren't bad, as long as they're presented as such. Hell, the op-ed page is usually the part of the newspaper I read first. Opinion pieces passed off as news, OTOH, shouldn't be tolerated from any source.

The games aren't even that great...

[Thaelon]

What pisses me off is you CANNOT get an xbox now that doesn't include the Forza racing game. I just want to softmod it and use it as an entertainment center. XBMC is awesome. I have little to no desire to play games on it.

I have about 6GB of music that I bought (I'm very picky about my encoding.) And about 1-2GB of audiobooks from http://www.audible.com/, not to mention movies *coughporncough*.

But think about it - not that much thought is required - A $29.99 game "included" with the xbox for $30 MORE than an xbox with no game.

That's right!

A $149.99 game system + $29.99 game being sold for $179.99.

You're just FORCED to buy a game at full price with the system whether you want it or not.

I asked the local Game Rush/Blockbuster how much they'd give in trade for the game, because I was planning on trading it in before I left the store with my new xbox.

Try looking for Forza on ebay. There are like 100 copies. Nobody wants the fucking thing, but we're forced to buy it at full price if we want a new xbox.

What the fuck?

Re:Bzzt wrong

[27B-6]

You, sir, are my hero.