The jury trial for the case of Matthew Crippen has been delayed today, after the presiding judge took 30 minutes to lecture the prosecution.
Crippen is on trial for allegedly modding Xbox 360 consoles to be able to play pirated games and homebrew.
U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez started the trial off with a 30-minute rant complaining about the prosecution and the government's ... [ read the full article ]
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Here is the logic of these manufactures, we built it therfore we own it.
uh NO you dont!
you do ONLY when it comes to ANOTHER company trying to use your design but not the product itself.
once the purchase has been made the CONSUMER owns it!
EXAMPLE: I buy a nice blue car from a dealer, its mine now paid in full, my resposinbility my financial burden, ok now
after a month I get tired of the blue, so I have it painted RED,
then the salesman who sold it to me comes by and sees I painted it.
He doesnt like that so he takes the car back, becuase your not using it the way he sold it to you.
He cant do that (Playstation, Nintendo, Xbox).
I am the one who owns it, not the manufacture!!!
If I buy one right now and take it to street and smash it with a baseball bat, I can do that, because I paid for it, its mine to do with as I want!
If this kid was making a profit I still doubt it was a dent into the margins of the manufactures.
Modding your own stuff should be ok, modding others is questionable at best.
The loss of revenue because of this kid is so small
that its the same as the ceo pays for his daily lunch.
I repeat, ridiculous!
You know what, I agree with you. If I buy a car and want to add something extra to it like an engine that gives it better gas mileage It's my right to do that. The modding of the system shouldn't be illegal, but the boot legging of copyrighted material should be.
i thought people was legally entitled to make a back up of their own disc, just in case the original gets damaged...as far as i know i can go out and buy a dvd machine that will play these backups, ie. vcd/svcd/cd- r/rw dvd rw..etc....so why can't people have a backup of these very expensive games....yes i know why...tut-tut.
