Watch out 'mods'

[3ngor]

Console hacker arrested, faces up to ten years in jail

Just when you thought it was safe to get out your soldering irons, Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants you to know that its agents are still out there, on the lookout for for even more mod chip-wielding nogoodniks and their non-DMCA compliant consoles. According to the AP, a 27-year-old CSU student named Matthew Crippen was recently arrested for "modifying Xbox, PlayStation and Wii consoles in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act" and released Monday on $5,000 bond. The dime was dropped on this perp by the Entertainment Software Association, and the raid conducted by Customs agents sometime in May. He will be arraigned on August 10th, and if convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison. Let this be a lesson to you: while the ICE may have its hands full with human slavery, drug trafficking, transnational gangs, and stolen artifacts, there is always time to make an example out of a man that knows his way around the inside of a PS3.

from engadget

[RawHide]

so technically wen u spend ur money and buy one of these its still not urs?

[Technocrat]

so technically wen u spend ur money and buy one of these its still not urs?

Absolutely correct.

[semitop]

Something is really wrong with that...

[SgtMac2]

PC gaming forever.. these people really have no idea where the line for intellectual property ends and my personal property begins.

[dwightmckie]

This is hard for me to accept

[kilaj1]

Hmm what next overclocking your PC illegal? thats an odd one

[Ωmega]

Another example of people in high ranking positions with nothing better to do

[danthony]

so this means if i take my PS3 n smash it against the wall, i'm destroying sony's property n could be arrested n charged????

WOW.........

[don_corleone]

man, thats such BS...