Massive Mod Chip Raid Sweeps Nation

[XDelusion]

The new Die Hard movie makes hackers out to be bad people too.

*Homeland Security = Terrorist Organization*-created post-9-11

nuff said.


peace

That's funny you should mention that, I was just going off about that myself!

I just hate the one part where the hacker kid makes a negative remark about the system, then Bruce willis is like,"HEY! It's not just a system, it's a country, it's people, it's families!". Or something to that effect.
Now had I written the script I would have had the hacker kid retort,"No, it's not a system, the system bears it's weight like a burden ON TOP of the country, and ON TOP of the People, and ON TOP of the Families!". But like I said, the script writer was a moron.


One other thing they said in this movie that I'm sure a lot of people will not think through and will just accept as the only possible outcome...

...which we have in times past in Real History, which is why this is sad because the movie could have taken a moment to provoke thought, but chose instead to illistrate the illusion that we are bound by the Fed's funny money or Debt Money.


There was a scene in the film where a guy said that if the servers holding all financial records in the US should crash that we'd be tossed back into the stone age.

Rather, those who in record are said to be worth such and such dollar amount would not be worthless. As for the rest of society (those who had not horeded money via the crooked capitalist system we live under), they would get along just fine as they would have to use the barter system as a form of exchange for goods and services, rather than some piece of imaginary money that does nothing but increase the national deficit. So the irony here is that the money system as it exsists keeps us in debt and therefore eternally bound to the bankers, which to me is living in the true stone age.

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[Destroyer699]

Sigh, another case of anti-modchip.

This is why the ESA fails so much. They don't know a thing about those tiny little chips.

Sure, alot of people get them to play pirated games. But then again, alot of people get them to play homebrew.

I myself have a chipped Xbox, and I wouldn't even think about playing pirated games(especially with an 8 gig harddrive). A chip isn't as bad as they claim it to be, all it does is let you run game code from the harddrive, or off other types of media. Thats all. Sure, ripped games are game code that can go on your harddrive or other types of media, but ripped games aren't the only type of game code.

In my opinion, the should be going after the people ripping the games and making tools to do so, not the 1/2 of people playing them and the 1/2 of people playing homebrew.

They really need to get a grip on what they are doing.

[Hypershell]

I understand the desire to prevent piracy, but I think if the big manufacturors and all that want to be serious about it, they should start by putting some thought into how to open up their consoles a bit more, so that there's less of a legal incentive to buy a modchip in the first place.

Why do regional lockouts even exist, if for no reason other than to harass and isolate the consumer? When I buy a PS2, one of the first games I'm getting is Namco X Capcom, which means that with it I need to get either a chip, a disc swapper, or a whole other console with a different region lock. Pardon me if my preference is to one of the earlier two.

As for homebrew, well, that is a tough one. Homebrew openings are generally the first to be exploited by pirates, but then again, the fact that there is no way for homebrew to work without bypassing a console's restrictions may be considered a major part of the problem. Wouldn't they benefit further by trying to cooperate and offering their own solution for home-based programmers? It's not that inconceivable. Say, homebrew is loaded from the memory card and not the disc drive. Commercial game is loaded, it goes to the disc drive, and re-checks whatever anti-piracy method they employ so as to prevent people from exploiting writeable media.

And then there's backups, which contrary to what corporate big-wigs would like you to think, is a legitimate concern. Loss, theft, damage not covered under warranty, these are things the consumer has to worry about. One of my favorite GBC games (Mega Man Xtreme 2) almost constantly locks up and/or refuses to start, due to what I can only assume to be wear on the contacts, and I'm still waiting for a decent DS-based emulator to surface that can run it at full speed. On the other hand, it's not as if the official guys couldn't offer a work-around if they really wanted to. Just look at Wii's Virtual Console.

So, yeah. If corporations want to protect themselves from modchips used for piracy, they can start by accomodating the legitimate user so that modchips aren't necessary for them in the first place. THEN they can crack down.

Meanwhile, the drug addicts and rapists are all friendly neighbors to us. >.> Yeah, the world is screwed up sometimes.

[Mr. Shadow]

Thats deep man.

[Dark Scion]

Republicans and democrats are two sides of the same coin and the companies should just run fornpresident since they are the ones who really run this messed up country anyway. Next election it should Sony running with MS as the vice president against Halliburton with Phizer as the vice president because the people they don't really represent American people. This pisses me off because people are losing jobs, homes, and healthcare and the real issues get swept under the rug we stop to fight to what...Mod chips?! WTF!