Modding Illegal???

RichDRichD Essex, UK
edited November 2007 in Gaming
I have just read the article on the home page about the guy who has just been found guilty of copyright infringement for selling XBox chips online. I don’t understand this. Don’t get me wrong, I am not condoning the act of chipping an xbox to use with pirate games but the copyright laws are put in place to stop you copying something that someone else has made. He has not copied anything and technically I don’t see that chipping your Xbox is illegal either. Yes it will invalidate your warranty but that is it. It only becomes illegal when you buy the copied game or actually copy it yourself.

Just wondering what others thoughts were?

Comments

  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited November 2007
    I'm not against modding, I fully support it. That being said. It is illegal in some places because it's circumventing copy protection. Buying/selling modchips not illegal (well depending on where you live). Installing and using often is, but again it does depend on what the laws are where you live.

    In most of North America you can mod away to your hearts content. It only becomes illegal when you put on the software that allows you to play pirated games. Which is why most mod shops don't install the hacked bios's necessary to do that. They just install the various modchips and leave them in their raw, rather useless state. Leaving the home user to patch them and make them illegal.
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