Highlite23
12-08-2004, 03:39 PM
Well here is your answer...
U.S. Officials Raid Stores For Selling Xbox Consoles With Games On HD
>> From Yahoo!News / Reuters:
Federal authorities raided three Washington, D.C.-area video game stores and arrested two people for modifying video game consoles to play pirated video games, a video game industry group said on Wednesday.
The Entertainment Software Association said the Dec. 1 raids at three Pandora's Cube stores in Maryland and Virginia were a joint effort of the U.S. Department of Justice's computer crimes unit, the U.S. Attorney's Office for Maryland and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Pandora's Cube, Wright (anti-piracy counsel to the ESA) said, sold $500 "Super Xbox" consoles, modified versions of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video game console, that had been modified to hold larger hard drives and play pirated games.
The modified consoles, some holding 15 or more games already copied to the hard drive, were on open display in the stores.
"They were burning games onto the hard drive and equipping the hard drive with copying software so that the average consumer could just go ahead and copy the software themselves," she said.
Isn't it pretty much common knowledge that this is a big NO, NO
Link to article (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&e=1&u=/nm/20041208/tc_nm/media_videogames_piracy_dc) :rolleyes:
U.S. Officials Raid Stores For Selling Xbox Consoles With Games On HD
>> From Yahoo!News / Reuters:
Federal authorities raided three Washington, D.C.-area video game stores and arrested two people for modifying video game consoles to play pirated video games, a video game industry group said on Wednesday.
The Entertainment Software Association said the Dec. 1 raids at three Pandora's Cube stores in Maryland and Virginia were a joint effort of the U.S. Department of Justice's computer crimes unit, the U.S. Attorney's Office for Maryland and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Pandora's Cube, Wright (anti-piracy counsel to the ESA) said, sold $500 "Super Xbox" consoles, modified versions of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video game console, that had been modified to hold larger hard drives and play pirated games.
The modified consoles, some holding 15 or more games already copied to the hard drive, were on open display in the stores.
"They were burning games onto the hard drive and equipping the hard drive with copying software so that the average consumer could just go ahead and copy the software themselves," she said.
Isn't it pretty much common knowledge that this is a big NO, NO
Link to article (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&e=1&u=/nm/20041208/tc_nm/media_videogames_piracy_dc) :rolleyes: