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College student in hot water for modifying consoles
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article published on 5 August, 2009
A California state college student was arrested for modifying gaming console hardware to bypass copy protection technology. Matthew Lloyd Crippen, 27, or Anaheim was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Monday following indictment by a federal grand jury on two counts of violating provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), each count carrying ... [ read the full article ]
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lxhotboy
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9. August 2009 @ 06:56 |
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Damn may God be with him...
and btw SSSJDanny wdf do you mean by this?
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He aint Mexican, Matthew Lloyd Crippen... thats a whiteboy name, might as well call him Skyler
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I'm sorry but a mexican wouldn't get caught
Maybe he was an illegal immigrant regardless of what race he maybe.
I dont know about the guy being mexican or illegal immagrant or what. Dont really matter to me the only thing that bothers me about illegal immigrants is that I pay taxes every year, have to pay for healthcare, and then illegal immigrants burden the country with billions of dollars lost each year b/c they dont put into the pot with taxes but yet receive free healthcare,welfare and other things. How bout giving some of that money to people who want to educate themselves if you are going to waste it. Hell pay for my college loans so i wont owe sally mae so much money. LOL. Seriously though, If my child needs a kidney transplant, i got to pay but no.... not illegal immigrants. I am not harping on Mexicans in general but the fact is that a huge portion of our tax dollars are wasted on Mexicans, THOSE BEING ILLEGAL IMMAGRANTS, who receive free healthcare. Thats just a fact but it really doesnot matter what your ethnic backgound is, I have a problem with anyone who doesnot pay taxes or has 10 children(includes legal taxpayers as well) without being able to properly provide for them and then uses my tax dollars to get a free ride out of life. I know a 21 years old girl who has 6 kids but six diff men and then lives off the system without ever seeking any education or ways to better her situation. The same goes out to all the dead beat dads or those who father all these childern and then cant put clothes on their backs. I really feel for the children who are brought into this world in situations like this. That is what birthcontrol is intended for. Wake up government and politicians and americans! Wake up! Dont be a burden on society.
1. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
Source....... http://rkdpolitics.blogspot.com/2009/03/...immigrants.html
2. Do illegal immigrants cost $338.3 billion dollars a year? More than the Iraq war?
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/do...on_dollars.html
And we wonder why the country is in debt for trillions of dollars. If illegal immigrants payed taxes, if would sure help to alleviate a lot of the problem. It would be a definite start. Sorry if i offended anyone but i am just being realistic. Its the truth. Being a nurse its sad to see so many young women doing nothing with their lives but popping babies and trying to find the most poppin club everynight. A lot of our young men fall into this same trend. Too sorry to work, go to school, and would rather lay in bed all day while their girlfriend works all day. I tried to motivate young people to do well in life and strive to acheive goals. It has made me proud to see people i have motivated to finish school and do something with their life.
On topic ......... This guy had to be advertising too much. Possibly on the internet or something and again why was immigration involved?
Is that for real do you really not know what service the majority of illegals perform for the U.S year in year out,jeeez i have never been there & even i know the answer to that,hell we have a large unemployment rate here in NZ of 55000.00 & climbing(pop 4.5 mill,to us 55 is a lot...lol..)anyway would you think any of them dole bludgers would want to pick fruit or run behind a garbage truck etc,etc, you guessed it,nup! they'd rather stay home playing vid games or boozeup,well most would,use your common sense,anyway illegals here are mostly samoans,tongans,niueans amongst others,these people do the jobs no one else wants just like your illegals,the majority are there for work to help themselves & family back home,in your case the majority would be exploited coz who can they turn too,when working sweat shops for nothing.The reason your guys economy is in the crap is mis management worse still providing subsidies to industries that have no incentive to improve themselves & why would they when they get a free handout,your farmers are a perfect example not to mention the motor industry what a bloody joke & don't get me started on Iraq how much is the bottomless hole sucking in & now your deploy'n to Afghanistan that's a huge mistake should let the Euro poofs take care of it..end rant.. *mutley laugh*
just for the record i can say euro poof coz i am a pom just that i was only there two years before bailing,glad mum n dad did get me outta there the place has gone to hell if the BBC is anything to by..lmao..
PS: If i offended anyone then good i obviously hit a raw nerve
Edit:I won't comment further on this subject perhaps if a topic regarding illegals or Euro poofs is made then yes i'll be happy to oblige :D..hahaha
Actually, illegal immigrant cause a lot of problems here in the US they dont help the country in any way at all. I dont know what makes anyone think they do. Your thoughts are a little misguided and shallow as to see the big picture. 338 billion dollars a year is lost on them b/c they dont pay taxes on any money they make. Tax dollars is what helps to pay for a lot of their food, and all their healthcare is free. If they payed taxes on the money they made from those jobs that are supposedly jobs no one wants to do then they would be pitching in with the rest of the country who is carrying their load by paying taxes.
@ scorpNZ.... illegal immigrants raise the unemployment rate here in the US by taking away jobs for others when they are taken advantage of by working for pennies like people do in other countries and industry jobs are lost when other countries are able to make a product such as, particle board, cheaper than the US can. China has put most of our particle board plants out of business and hurt those plants that still remain in the US b/c they are able produce it a lot cheaper by paying their countries workers lower wages. Same thing the illegal immigrants do here. Dont know about you but i would rather get a steak tossed to me after i leave my job then a bone. See my point?
PS. If illegal immigrants in your country are doing jobs for less than what they deserve, uhh... doesnot that take away from the next man who could have a job making decent wages? That drives unemployment rates up in any country. Every country has their flaws and most people who have traveled the world agree that this is the land with the most opportunity available to provide a good quality of life for a family. I am not knocking any other country nor do i result to childish remarks, i am just speaking the truth. Wink Wink... i have family members enlisted in the Navy and Army who are currently stationed in Germany and Iraq, know doctors from africa and other countries b/c i work in the medical field, and have friends who came here to the states from other parts of the world to get an education and give their children a better opportunity in life. I dont think any of them prefer their homelands as a place to raise their families but to each his own.
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Emilio123
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9. August 2009 @ 23:32 |
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oh.no! why??what if he modified them and resold them? If they didnt have proved that it was his fault, they couldn´t arrest him!!
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varnull
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9. August 2009 @ 23:36 |
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DMCA is quite specific about modifying devices to circumvent copy protection methods.. It's illegal.. and even more so when done for profit.
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lxhotboy
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10. August 2009 @ 00:27 |
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Originally posted by varnull:
DMCA is quite specific about modifying devices to circumvent copy protection methods.. It's illegal.. and even more so when done for profit.
LMAO.... Varnull that was hilarious.
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11. August 2009 @ 06:16 |
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Originally posted by varnull:
DMCA is quite specific about modifying devices to circumvent copy protection methods.. It's illegal.. and even more so when done for profit.
Yes, even providing chips that could theoreticly be used for piracy is illigal. There was a PS2 modchip that was widly used for linux installs a few years back. It could be used for playing game backups, but only with a custom software flash. It's primary use was for linux and homebrew software. Despite this, it was made illigal by the DMCA because a few people were using them for piracy (even though much cheaper pirate chips were available to do the same job without flashing the chips).
HDMI computer tuner cards are legal, but units with HDCP support are not. So, if you want to record your PS3 gameplay in digital HD, you cannot do it without buying an illigal card. Technicaly, it is even illigal to watch an orriginal Blu-Ray movie on a non-HDCP screen! If you want to use your computer as an HD-DVR, you cannot (unless it was built by one of the OEM's that bribed the right people).
We live in a republic, not a democracy. A democracy lets the people make the decisions (as far as I know, there is no country on earth that does this). A republic has puppets elected in staged elections, and operated by the corporations that pay for the staged election campaigns. The judges are appointed by other judges, or by politicians working for the same corporations. This means that all three of the governmental branches in the USA (as well as most other 'free' countries) are all run by the corporations's puppets. Public descent and protest will not change anything, and your vote is worthless come election time. In spite of all this, they still manage to blame others for all the problems (notice how this thread went to imigrant bashing for a while).
The price of medicine is too high...lets blame the mexicans (even though the only way to get cheap drugs is to go to mexico).
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