RE: One word... Moronic.

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here, here!

Paul G.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of
> Ian Lowe
> Sent: 04 July 2005 19:35
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: [ukha_d] One word... Moronic.
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4650225.stm
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> And that could be applied either to the idiot who sold modded Xboxes,
> *WITH GAMES INSTALLED* and the court system which seems to think that
> the problem here is not the piracy of the games, but the modification
of
> the console. This guy is an absolute textbook case of piracy - selling
> copyright material for money - so why is the modification of the
console
> the big issue?
>
> How many of us here have modded Xboxes to run XBMC and act as a media
> centre?
>
> Personally, I don't play a single xbox game - it's a cool bit of
> hardware, nothing more. That I could be charged with
"circumventing
> copyright protection" when I have no interest *whatsoever* in
doing so
> is just plain infuriating.
>
> The sooner this ludicrous situation with regards to "piracy"
and
> "copyright" is sorted out the better - it's out of all
proportion to
> what any sane person would consider fair.
>
> Ian.
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