The Theater industry will not die, not a chance,
I love both, going to the movies and watching them at home on TV with a DVD player.
At the movies you get
Huge screen, great sound, here 100 opinions of eah scean, race eat as much of your free refill popcorn as you can so when the cart guy comes in half way threw the movie you can get a fresh bag, No clean up after, Night out, worth 3 days of no nagging.
At home you get
Your chair, Beer, seeing all of the movie and hearing it cause no one is talking, pausing for washroom break, Hamburgers and fries, foot rest, clean up, nagging that you should have spent the night "talking"/*listening to bitching*/ .
How can either of thouse die??
Oh and as a young teen the movies also provide a place in the dark.;-)
A Mod chip isn't a like a turbo charger or some sport chip
its more like a Universal car door unlocker,
Press the unlock button and all cars of that make unlock
would it be legal to sell such a device?? Probably not,
Would car companies do everything in there power to have it out lawed, Most definatly,
Can you make one in your home for your self, Yes you can, using it on items you do not own is illegal, but on your own cars is fine,
same with mod chips, you are allowed to make your own mod chip, you can use it so you can play backed up copys of games you own, BUT you are not to use it to play copies of games you do not own
........Fair enough. So if I can come up with a legal use for the technology can be sold?....
IF the legal use was for more then.01% of the Xbox users then I would say yes Mod chips for mass distro is great.
But since more then 99% of Mod chip owners have mod chips so they can burn games and not have to buy them, I think the technology should remain somthing the genral public should not have easily avaible,
If you are not capable of building a Mod Chip, then getting one put in to do the linux project by some one who is willing to do it, but is not in the business of making and selling mod chips, then so be it, Making and selling Mod chips should not be a business, having some one Burn songs from your CD's onto one CD in MP3 form is legal, They are not doing it for profit, it they charge you for the CD media, and that is it,
Think if you made a machine, you sold it to the masses, and your main income from the machine was from people using software you made for it, NOW some one has figured out how to use your software with out paying for it, you spent all that time making the hardware, and the software, only to find some one making a profit off of reverse engineering your BIOS and then seeing what they need to change to make it so they can use your software for free,
You make software, you can appreciate the work that goes into it, Now if you made it and got nothing in return except complaints about it, even from people who are stealing it, how would you feel??
Just because Xbox is Made by MS, the company everyone for some reason seems to love to hate, doesn't make it any better then if it was some joe sixpack and this system was his only source of income..
Using the Car example I noticed
A mod chip isn't like a performance chip, its more like a Universal car door unlocker
If I made a Door unlocker that could open all Ford electronic doors Can I now sell it for profit?
the ligit use is I have 2 cars both Fords, I want to beable to unlock both with only 1 machine instead of having 2 on my key chain.
All of them have ligit uses, a Mod is for playing games you have stolen.
Its like cracking a Copy protected game so you don't need the CD to run it, It is perfectly legal to do so, as long as you don't do so to let other people steal the game, You can Mod your Xbox to play Burned games, that you made to protect your ligit copies from damage, but it is not to be used to buy bootleg copies from some one and never own the game legally, allowing the Mod chip to be sold retail would invite people using stolen games,
IF people were honest, many are, but unfortunatly most geeks are not, then selling such a chip retail is fine, But until people can grasp that stealing is wrong, Mod Chips should not be made retail.
I think MS is right is using the copyright laws to keep people from altering there hardware.
YOU, as an individual can MAKE YOUR OWN Mod chip, BUT going out and buying one, even if it is not for profit is wrong, Its like the black box for cable to unscrable all the channels, there is really no legal use for this technology so it should not be permitted to be sold,
The same goes with Mod Chips, there is said "grey area" like the linux project, But if one wishes to do the linux project one must fist make there own mod,
I don't think telling people how to make there own mod should be illegal since it is just sharing of information, But making it for some one is/should be illegal.
Thats my views on the matter, Most likly I am in the manority, since I also think downloading MP3s with P2P programs is illegal
Stop sharing your files on P2P networks
Accually make a Peer 2 peer netowrk
each person accually buy 1 CD a year, Rip it and share songs with people on the Peer to Peer network, Files can be sent with programs like
ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, AIM,..... the list goes on,
set up FTP's like we did back in the mid 90's remember??
Or just stop steeling!
I dislike the RIAA as much as the next guy, But If you wrote a book, then one copy was sold and it was then photocopied 1000 times how would you feel?? you spent say 10 months writing it, 500 dollars advertising it locally, then you sell it for 30 bucks,
1 copy is sold, it costs 10 bucks to make you get 20 bucks but are still short 480 bucks.
I don't want to see this guy sharing his files get busted, but I don't like P2P networks, they cause a huge drain on Bandwidth on LANs and ISP's
I have been trying to get my University to install such a program, I have sent them this site link, as well as been in contact with the network admin at UCirving so that we can get underway
My University is a small one, we only have 15Mb, and a fairly large portion of the student body lives on campus since we have townhouses and dorms, this puts a strain on the network and at times I have timed out trying to load this page because network traffic is so bad.
Instead of using P2P programs, set up a Peer network
your friends, floor mates, and such, buy music and share it. this is just as illegal as downloading But atleast you are not using up the bandwidth for people that want to do there work, On a rainy day I have problems doing reseach since everyone is inside downloading.
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The Theater industry will not die, not a chance, I love both, going to the movies and watching them at home on TV with a DVD player. At the movies you get Huge screen, great sound, here 100 opinions of eah scean, race eat as much of your free refill popcorn as you can so when the cart guy comes in half way threw the movie you can get a fresh bag, No clean up after, Night out, worth 3 days of no nagging. At home you get Your chair, Beer, seeing all of the movie and hearing it cause no one is talking, pausing for washroom break, Hamburgers and fries, foot rest, clean up, nagging that you should have spent the night "talking" /*listening to bitching*/ .
How can either of thouse die??
Oh and as a young teen the movies also provide a place in the dark. ;-)
A Mod chip isn't a like a turbo charger or some sport chip its more like a Universal car door unlocker, Press the unlock button and all cars of that make unlock would it be legal to sell such a device?? Probably not, Would car companies do everything in there power to have it out lawed, Most definatly, Can you make one in your home for your self, Yes you can, using it on items you do not own is illegal, but on your own cars is fine, same with mod chips, you are allowed to make your own mod chip, you can use it so you can play backed up copys of games you own, BUT you are not to use it to play copies of games you do not own
........Fair enough. So if I can come up with a legal use for the technology can be sold? ....
IF the legal use was for more then .01% of the Xbox users then I would say yes Mod chips for mass distro is great.
But since more then 99% of Mod chip owners have mod chips so they can burn games and not have to buy them, I think the technology should remain somthing the genral public should not have easily avaible,
If you are not capable of building a Mod Chip, then getting one put in to do the linux project by some one who is willing to do it, but is not in the business of making and selling mod chips, then so be it, Making and selling Mod chips should not be a business, having some one Burn songs from your CD's onto one CD in MP3 form is legal, They are not doing it for profit, it they charge you for the CD media, and that is it,
Think if you made a machine, you sold it to the masses, and your main income from the machine was from people using software you made for it, NOW some one has figured out how to use your software with out paying for it, you spent all that time making the hardware, and the software, only to find some one making a profit off of reverse engineering your BIOS and then seeing what they need to change to make it so they can use your software for free,
You make software, you can appreciate the work that goes into it, Now if you made it and got nothing in return except complaints about it, even from people who are stealing it, how would you feel??
Just because Xbox is Made by MS, the company everyone for some reason seems to love to hate, doesn't make it any better then if it was some joe sixpack and this system was his only source of income..
Using the Car example I noticed
A mod chip isn't like a performance chip, its more like a Universal car door unlocker
If I made a Door unlocker that could open all Ford electronic doors Can I now sell it for profit?
the ligit use is I have 2 cars both Fords, I want to beable to unlock both with only 1 machine instead of having 2 on my key chain.
All of them have ligit uses, a Mod is for playing games you have stolen. Its like cracking a Copy protected game so you don't need the CD to run it, It is perfectly legal to do so, as long as you don't do so to let other people steal the game, You can Mod your Xbox to play Burned games, that you made to protect your ligit copies from damage, but it is not to be used to buy bootleg copies from some one and never own the game legally, allowing the Mod chip to be sold retail would invite people using stolen games, IF people were honest, many are, but unfortunatly most geeks are not, then selling such a chip retail is fine, But until people can grasp that stealing is wrong, Mod Chips should not be made retail.
I think MS is right is using the copyright laws to keep people from altering there hardware. YOU, as an individual can MAKE YOUR OWN Mod chip, BUT going out and buying one, even if it is not for profit is wrong, Its like the black box for cable to unscrable all the channels, there is really no legal use for this technology so it should not be permitted to be sold, The same goes with Mod Chips, there is said "grey area" like the linux project, But if one wishes to do the linux project one must fist make there own mod, I don't think telling people how to make there own mod should be illegal since it is just sharing of information, But making it for some one is/should be illegal. Thats my views on the matter, Most likly I am in the manority, since I also think downloading MP3s with P2P programs is illegal
Stop sharing your files on P2P networks Accually make a Peer 2 peer netowrk each person accually buy 1 CD a year, Rip it and share songs with people on the Peer to Peer network, Files can be sent with programs like ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ..... the list goes on,
set up FTP's like we did back in the mid 90's remember??
Or just stop steeling!
I dislike the RIAA as much as the next guy, But If you wrote a book, then one copy was sold and it was then photocopied 1000 times how would you feel?? you spent say 10 months writing it, 500 dollars advertising it locally, then you sell it for 30 bucks,
1 copy is sold, it costs 10 bucks to make you get 20 bucks but are still short 480 bucks.
I don't want to see this guy sharing his files get busted, but I don't like P2P networks, they cause a huge drain on Bandwidth on LANs and ISP's
I have been trying to get my University to install such a program, I have sent them this site link, as well as been in contact with the network admin at UCirving so that we can get underway My University is a small one, we only have 15Mb, and a fairly large portion of the student body lives on campus since we have townhouses and dorms, this puts a strain on the network and at times I have timed out trying to load this page because network traffic is so bad. Instead of using P2P programs, set up a Peer network your friends, floor mates, and such, buy music and share it. this is just as illegal as downloading But atleast you are not using up the bandwidth for people that want to do there work, On a rainy day I have problems doing reseach since everyone is inside downloading.