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Here's an article covering someone who got arrested for a modded X-Box. Granted, the person in question worked at a retail store, and they probably should not have had a modded X-Box in the display case.
However, it raises the now-old argument...is it bad to mod an X-Box? Saying yes also means it's bad to hop up your car. Your car was designed to perform a certain way, and altering that configuration violates the intended purpose.
So all you tuners out there, bad, bad, bad.
Granted, a modded X-Box could play pirated games. That doesn't mean the user WILL, however. Same argument about DVD decryption, and I use the VCR argument for all of these. It was ruled in court that VCR's are OK for the consumer to own and use. Sure, they could record protected works, but that doesn't mean they will. Same goes for X-Boxes, or you car. Just because a modded X-Box can play a pirated game, that may not be why you wanted it modded. Maybe you wanted a media player without the tangle of wires from a computer in your living room. Maybe you're just tired of all those disk changes and wanted a bigger hard drive in your X-Box to dump your games to. Nothing wrong with that...and it's not illegal. Neither is hopping up your car...sure, it could go 200 km/h, but that doesn't mean you will.
Oh, and for that matter, you can't put new windows in your house either. Or a new bathtub. Don't like the curtains? Too bad.
Here's an article covering someone who got arrested for a modded X-Box. Granted, the person in question worked at a retail store, and they probably should not have had a modded X-Box in the display case.
However, it raises the now-old argument...is it bad to mod an X-Box? Saying yes also means it's bad to hop up your car. Your car was designed to perform a certain way, and altering that configuration violates the intended purpose.
So all you tuners out there, bad, bad, bad.
Granted, a modded X-Box could play pirated games. That doesn't mean the user WILL, however. Same argument about DVD decryption, and I use the VCR argument for all of these. It was ruled in court that VCR's are OK for the consumer to own and use. Sure, they could record protected works, but that doesn't mean they will. Same goes for X-Boxes, or you car. Just because a modded X-Box can play a pirated game, that may not be why you wanted it modded. Maybe you wanted a media player without the tangle of wires from a computer in your living room. Maybe you're just tired of all those disk changes and wanted a bigger hard drive in your X-Box to dump your games to. Nothing wrong with that...and it's not illegal. Neither is hopping up your car...sure, it could go 200 km/h, but that doesn't mean you will.
Oh, and for that matter, you can't put new windows in your house either. Or a new bathtub. Don't like the curtains? Too bad.
posted by Jeremy at 1:53 p.m.
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