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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:

Xer0Mercy
12-08-2004, 05:38 PM
Idiots.

Reclaimer
12-08-2004, 07:37 PM
That is just brazenly stupid. It pretty much shows that the store owners thought they where above the law. Or at least they where thinking "'They would never bust me."

BlindSniper
12-08-2004, 08:18 PM
Wow, way to put them on display and everything. Haha, super xbox.......doesn't deserve a name like that. More something along the lines of, pirated illegal xbox. Hm.

mattgame
12-08-2004, 08:29 PM
I hope Bill buries their arses!!!

Variation-XBA
12-09-2004, 02:27 AM
Give em life! :D

Hzaarour
12-11-2004, 07:18 PM
wow...

Echoes
12-11-2004, 08:33 PM
Yeah i saw that also..

Billferd
12-11-2004, 09:45 PM
Wow...how can you be that dumb?

Nameless
12-12-2004, 02:33 PM
It was all just a big misunderstanding.