Mod Chippers Ordered to Pay $9 Million in Fines

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 6, 2006 @08:52AM from the sell-more-product-to-make-up-the-difference dept.

GameDaily is reporting that that ESA is announcing a major victory against game software piracy in California. A judge has handed down over $9 Million in fines to Divineo Inc., some employees, and international subsidiaries. From the article: "The defendants had apparently violated the DMCA by trafficking mod chips and the HDLoader software application that enables users to copy whole video games to a console's hard drive ... Mod chips then can be used to allow a console to play illegally obtained/pirated games. Both the mod chips and HDLoader application therefore circumvent the copyright protection technology built into video game consoles and video game software and are in direct violation of the DMCA."

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Re:Next up: PC by Amouth · 2006-10-06 09:28 · Score: 0, Troll

Hey!.. Be Nice to America, or we will bring Democracy to your Country..

And if your already an American.. well let me know when you find a way out.. i want to go..

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