Originally posted by auiotour:
from what I got reading numerous stories, the guy bought xbox chips from some company, put his name on them and resold them. by doing this he breaks copy right laws. It isn't about preflashed bio's modding your xbox, its about copywrite laws. I don't remember ever seeing microsoft as being the one who is taking him to court. I am sure they tipped the DOJ off to him. Anyone you try to twist the storie, the fact is he copied someone else stuff and sold it as his own. There is so many people posting anti-bush stuff, and stuff like if they buy something they can do anything with it. Well Yes, you can, Now here is where copywrite comes in. If you try to sell something, saying you made it, when it is already copywrited by someone else. that is where you are now breaking the law. If you turned around and solda Dell PC, painted yellow with the printer busted and spilled water in it. As long as you didn't slap your name tag on it you could still sell it. Without any hard ships at all. but you put your name on it and now you are breaking copy write laws. Some people need to read the whole aritical on that discussion board.
I read them to and they said nothing about him trying to relabel them as his. According to the stories they arrested him for selling the mod chips which let's you play pirated games. His site did not have any pirated games on it but the people in the forums talked about how to get and make pirated copies of games. In my opinion hed did nothing wrong in selling the chips since most people get them to play imported games that did not come out in the US even though you do have the people who use them for the wrong reasons. In regards to his forums and website he did not offer any tips or tricks on how to pirate the games nor did he offer any pirated games himself. The people on his site in his forums where the ones guilty of that. If that is the grounds for his arrest them why don't the government shut down and arrest every arms dealer? Sure not everyone that buys a gun is going to go out and murder paople but they sure are helping the ones that do buy the guns for that reason! Why do they allow the sale and use of computers? Yes not everyone is going to use it to hack and steal peoples identity to scam people with, but that still helps the ones who do chose to do so with it.
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