I'm currently waiting for my decal man to ship me bits for my next project. A new post in a week or so when it gets here, and I can finish up my WIP plate.
Understandably so. I've been white-hat for a few years now. No copyright-law trouble for Eddie if he can avoid it.
Even from a very technical sense, that's arguable.
Me dremelling a window in a case only affects the software running insomuch as the difference in materials (plastic to plexiglass) effects heat conductivity. Me adding a 12-volt fan to the front of my CPU heatsink simply allows the console to run closer to optimal temperature, in no way modifying to do what a stock case could not (a stock case will run at that slightly cooler temperature for a short time as it begins running).
I was always under the impression that the hardware I purchase is mine to alter as I see fit. Now, granted, the software is only
licensed to me, and if they felt that in any way I was violating their licensing agreement, they could terminate their end of the bargain, and alter the software to ban me from Xbox Live.
It would be akin to stating that because I opened an out-of-the-box PC to upgrade my RAM, I'm in the wrong. Again, granted, I've voided the warranty, and trying to regain the privileges granted to me while under warranty would be fraud, but I'm failing to see the infraction in cosmetic case modding.
A lot of times the pieces I do are full coherent case, plate and HDD mods, and I feel that the effect is somewhat lost on certain plates without the matching case. Now, with my disagreement fully voiced, I understand that being the senior member here, that is 100% your call.
So, would you prefer that I didn't post pictures of my casemodded boxes period, or would you like me to simply not get into the repeatable details?
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