Massive Mod Chip Raid Sweeps Nation

[masamune]

never used modchips... but still this is still kinda lame.

[the_eternal_dark]

I know MOST people who have modchips on their consoles use it for piracy reasons.

But surely theres the odd few who use them for legit reasons?.... like for development and homebrew reasons?

Or playing games from other regions. My main reason.

[XDelusion]

Since when are mod chips illegal in the states!? I thought land of the free home of the brave was one of the few places they were legal.

Anybody know if they're legal here in Japan? I haven't tried to find out since my Xbox and PSP don't need it.

That America is long dead. Apparently while the Nation was distracted by Bill Clinton's oral massage, he was busy not only having peole killed in Kosovo, but also was busy here at home taking away more rights (do to some corporate lobbying behind closed doors I'm sure). I forget what it is called, but basically it states that even if a person buys something, he does not have the legal right to modify it beyond it's intended use.
I think this basically is out of paranoia of hackers, the government didn't want peole to have computers orignally, and now that we all have computers, and acess to technology, they want to take away our rights to experiement with it, and thus develope a way to spy on the spies.
That and of course it covers corporate interests, which as I stated above, there has been no crack down on the amount of hard drugs, and heavy weapons coming across our boarders, and yet they are willing to crack down on our privacy, and MOD chips and what not.
As I said America has been dead since the early 20th century, infact I'd say it died on Dec 23rd 1913.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/fract/


Siggghhhh, it's hard to enjoy video games sometimes when I'm living in the middle of the end...

[CreativeMind]

I would love to know what the bail for these people will be set at. Anyone willing to bet that it won't be exessively high. I mean a preacher was caught driving intoxicated, offered to perform oral sex on the cops, and took a piss outside in front of minors and his bail: 1,000. Yet, rapists, molesters, bank robbers get 5-10k for bail, I am betting these people will have bail at over 50k. Any takers?! Thought not. American justice system hard at work for Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony. Want to show these fudgepackers a thing or two. Never buy a game again. I have a modchip in my PS2, Wii, and custom firmware for my PSP and I buy 1-2 games a month. Bunch of wankers, the whole lot!

[punkonjunk]

hey, if you're not using the modchips for anything illegal, just homebrew and backup play (Lets say you could 100% prove the backup playing) is it illegal to use them?

[Tripsk8er333]

All of this Sucks ! I Really think that The "Government" should F*@k off and leave us alone. I just hope they don't start cracking down on PSP and DS modding. This Really sucks

[John Vattic]

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

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

nuff said.


peace

[Ichijoe]

Well thank god the Bush Administrations' Department of Homeland Security, is safely on the Scene!!

'Couse as everyone knows when you purchase a Modchip the Terrorists WIN!! T_T

[ish420ism]

Fuk finding Osama Bin Laden. Let's find the evil mod chip sellers. PO PO, Suck a $#@!. Pirate for LIFE.
Oh yeah, FUK BUSH and CHENEY.

[cal360]

Do they also realise that modchips are NOT just for pirating, its so we can unlock a consoles full potential in homebrew which goes over no copyright
laws.