RE: One word... Moronic.

["Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I completely agree with you Ian. Was the guy supremely arrogant, or just
completely stupid to think he wouldn't be caught for selling illegal
copies of games via the 'net ?
As for the sentence - it's laughable. 140 hours of community service for
perhaps one of the most clear-cut cases of software piracy? Completely
ridiculous.

All this case has served to do is push the XBMC scene further
underground :-( It's sad.

Tim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4650225.stm
>
> 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.