UK: Mr. Modchips Gets Convicted

[wraggster]

A 'businessman' who traded under the name Mr Modchips has become only the second person in the UK to be convicted for distributing and selling chipped consoles.

39 year-old Higgs was found guilty of 26 offences: three counts of advertising, supplying and selling modification chips designed to enable people to play illegally copied games on their consoles, 12 counts of possessing 19 chipped games consoles and another 11 counts of possessing Executor modchips for Microsoft consoles, as well as Viper GC chips for Nintendo systems. He was cleared of a further four counts of possessing chipped consoles.

The jury at his trial voted unanimously against Higgs, whose lawyers requested leave to appeal which was granted by the Judge. A date for the appeal hearing has yet to be set.

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?op...7675&Itemid=53

[acn010]

another store?!?!?!?!?!
wow whats wrong with this month!!!!

[Prasoc]

unlucky, mush

[kcajblue]

whats up with the damn people cracking down on stores.
they dont even have a good reason to do it.

[splodger15]

This guy was in the Sun newspaper today they are cracking down big time.

[Eyedunno]

Man, I'm wondering if there was one retard in that courtroom, or twelve, or thirteen. Maybe the guy's defense attorney was a retard, maybe everyone on the jury was, or maybe both of the above.

[hadrian]

The guy was an ass anyway, conned a lot of people and discriminated against certain people because their countries governments have killed innocent people.

He's a Brit (like me) so thats pretty hypocritical.

[Johnny Rash]

Makes me worried about having 7 modchips in my house...

I don't want to go to jail and be a man named 8-ball's girlfriend...

[bah]

WTF, Australian law is more lax than British law in this regard then it seems......

The chips themselves and installing them are legal, having pirated games is not.

[Johnny Rash]

Oh good.

Worry gone.

Does that apply to America?