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College student arrested for modding game consoles |
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A college student from Cal State Fullerton was arrested by federal agents on Monday by illegally running a home business of modifying Xbox, Playstation, Wii and other video game consoles to enable the machines to play pirated video games.Matthew Lloyd Crippen was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for allegedly violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. According to NBC Los Angeles:
The college student is accused of modifying for personal financial gain technology affecting control or access to a copyrighted work. Each criminal count carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. The charges against Crippen stem from an ICE investigation initiated late last year after the agency received a tip from the Entertainment Software Association.
Special Agent in Charge Robert Schoch, who heads the ICE investigations office in Los Angeles commented on the bust:
Playing with games in this way is not a game -- it is criminal. Piracy, counterfeiting and other intellectual property rights violations not only cost U.S. businesses jobs and billions of dollars a year in lost revenue, they can also pose significant health and safety risks to consumers.
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@gunblade15zx
Yeah dude I didn't know either. But there are a lot of modders here in LA. Some people don't want to risk breaking their systems so they have others mod it for them.
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I'm a modder myself, well I make fans into the system LEDs and allkind of stuff but as long as you stay away from the motherbord you just fine, but I've a quastion about this you van play burned games right and only that, and I don't care if I get banned or not AND I live in the netherlands so there is a small chance that this in counting for Europe
Gr Bob
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I wonder if those punishments would be concurrent or consecutive?
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To NickyP, if the jail sentences even stand, they are almost always ruled to be served concurrently. It's up to the judge, but no judge would, say, put a man in jail for 50 years for stealing 10 movies.
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Really?!?! And what would those be??
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And yeah, I love the canned line they give at the end. I especially love how they just randomly tack on new things, this is definitely the first time I've seen them claim health and safety risks to consumers.
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you are dead man. KGB watching you - i prepare Deyterium
^___^
прощайся с жизнью, пидарас!
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becasue it is easy for them to find people who mod becasue every single character we type is logged by ower ispn but it takes weeks for them to get anything out of them (thats with a warrent)
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http://healthmad.com/healthcare-industry/euthanasia-3/
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Too bad, lol, that's what you get.
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i highly doubt he reported that income...
stop and think before you open your WTF'n mouth...
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but did he mod a playstation 1,2, or 3 lol?
stupid question i know
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as for the DMCA
Section 1201 SS 2
`(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that--
`(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
`(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or
`(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
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Smart one he wasn't just modding the xbox(quoted from the article you should of read)
"illegally running a home business of modifying Xbox, Playstation, Wii and other video game consoles to enable the machines to play pirated video games."
You can see that it isn't only the xbox, stupid fanboy
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also vizard00 is right to an extent he needed a case and since he probably just graduated he knew the modder on campus and *****ed him over.
Just remember 90% of Gov. Officials and Law Enforcement are not people they are tools they abuse their government backing.
Ending my rant, I have modded sheriff's xbox's and even people on the department of home land security "immigration department" so hey maybe game companies should lower their prices.
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#2. What happened to YOUR rights to copy YOUR OWN PURCHASED game, and once you have, how the FOCK are you supposed to be able to play it?
This guy needs a really good ambulance chaser and sue the living *****e out of the arresting force.
Nor were we told if he went out of his way to ask his clients as to whether or not THEY intend on illegal activities, as well as the loss of their warranty?
Personally, I need a bit more information before totally slamming the innocence or guilt of this individual, but it immediately seems to me that he lacks skills in semantics.
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I can't speak for PS2 modchips or the Xbox360 drivechips, but when you get one for the Wii or the Xbox 1, you need to manually put the BIOS on there yourself and it isn't included when a standalone chip or premodded system ships, though they do point you in the right direction on where to get it. Once again, the end user's decision. If they are preflashed, then you are asking for trouble.
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i'm not brainwashed by any stretch of the imagination... i wasn't worried about the tax issue at all. i'm a firm believer that double taxation is illegal and the govt created loopholes to get around it. i don't believe the money i make should be taxed, only the money i spend... which i tend to do alot of.
i was merely pointing out to the ever so intelligent ISOHaven, that sales (or service) tax isn't the only thing the govts expect us to pay.
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It was my joke!!! AND not a good one so STFU, Either way piracy runs on my computer, so they should sue microsoft for not being strong enough to block it. No one else cares about what i said because it was a bad joke, d@mn dude relax, you know you a lame when you get worked up over stupid comments. Not to mention i didnt even care, i justwanted to drop a lil 2 cents.
i bet you would get pissed if i left a question on this article asking "whats a zune?" lmao.
HAHA look at my stars on the last comment, i feel special.
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I was just stating the obvious.
I agree with damonous in the sense that this whole issue sucks. But in the end, it is ILLEGAL to circumvent digital security.
But, this is actually a good thing. Sort of. After all, they only went after someone who made a business out of it. If you change the supercharger example to something along the lines of illegally modifying an exhaust to pollute for more HP but at the same time make it pass inspection then you quickly see why there's an issue on the table.
Now, if they start busting the console owners... the shlt is going to hit the fan!!!
@Orlyeh - I don't care what SOME moronic tax professionals "believe". The law is the law. A service is not taxable. I already went this route with the lawyers when I had a DVD conversion business. I converted video tapes to DVD back when DVD burners where not yet available for PC. It was a SERVICE and the DVDs I gave to the customers for FREE. I charged NO TAXES. But I had to pay sales tax on the DVDs (and cases and paper supplies). I could not buy them wholesale.
@rollypoly (again) - Again, WTF was your point and why? I didn't saying even close to that. You need to get in the game man....
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Restrictions on hardware that stifle INDEPENDENT DEVELOPERS, who are much more likely to create more jobs and create better software than these Wiitarded megacorporation s who stay with the same old safe gameplay formulas over and over!
And health risks to consumers? Don't make me laugh. Some idiot gets electrocuted by messing with HIS OWN ELECTRONICS, and for this, he's ARRESTED? Will the same rule apply to automobiles? Will we need to modify them to drive to restricted places before long?
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This guy got caught cuz he pissed off somebody...
Piracy will be around for a long time anyways.
I bet you over half of QJ users have a modded 360s, DS flashcart, modded wii, or custom firmware on PSP.
Or all of the above.
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in fact his statement implies INCOME TAX as it follows the statement "making money", not "offering a service" or "selling a product"
make all the nonsensical comparisons you want, it doesn't change the fact that you assumed he meant a service tax.
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It means both. Whether he meant it to only mean income and/or sales is up to him to specify.
Also, it's called SALES tax not SERVICE TAX. Gees!!!
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And another thing, you can't just trust anybody you go to school with. One of the PSP's he modded could easily be the bait that got him caught!
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I could spin a story where a modder doesn't know what he's doing and ends up causing the console he sold to catch fire, and burn down a house or something, but that's going out on a limb. But hey, Special Agent Robert Schoch went pretty far out on a limb saying that its a safety risk. I was just trying to think of anything when I brought up soldering.
Perhaps its even good for you to mod consoles!
Next up: Richard Simmons, Modding to the oldies!
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...ANYWAY, the only bad thing to happen in this case is that the guy allowed himself to get caught.
fo shizzle
~K Dizzle™
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Anyway, back on topic...
So, if he did the service for free he wouldn't get busted for it?
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Less than a 1,000 people know how to do this. They are just making an example out of this guy.
Remember the lady who downloaded 1,00's of songs from a torrent site ? What happened to her ? Nothing... She didn't have a job, living off Govt. assistance and she had 3 kids. They went after a college student... No job, in school... I wish they went after illegals with this much versatility !!!
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