A 22-year-old man has become the first person in the UK to be convicted for modifying a video games console.
The Cambridge graduate was sentenced at Caerphilly Magistrates Court in Wales to 140 hours of community service.
The man had been selling modified Xbox consoles which he fitted with a big hard drive containing 80 games.
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The man, who has not yet been named, was selling modified Xbox consoles, fitted with a 200GB hard drive and 80 pre-installed games, via his website for £380.
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The man was sentenced to 140 hours community service and ordered to pay £750 in costs. The court also seized his equipment - three PCs, two printers, three Xbox consoles and 38 hard drives.
"It sends a clear message to anyone tempted to become involved in chipping consoles that this is a criminal offence and will be dealt with accordingly," said Mr Rawlinson, deputy director general of Elspa.
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yea, that putting 80 games on the modded box is illegal... and it is, thats selling copyrighted software... i doubt he could have gotten in trouble for selling the modded boxes, but selling the illegal software was the kick in the nuts
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This stuff isn't new... the FBI caught a group in Washington for doing the same thing. Labeling them Super Xbox's which also came with 60-80 games their company was huge until it was shut down 6 months ago.
Microsoft looks the other way when people modify their hardware, but if you start going after their bread n' butter then they'll go after you. Especially if your running a buisness off of it.
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If you want my opinion, law enforcement should be more concerned about getting violent offenders behind bars rather than some guy who sells an Xbox preloaded with some games.
But laws are laws, and the moron knew when he put those 80 games on there that it was copyright infringement.
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yes the law enforcement should work on violent criminals, but they had a name, address, and phone number and etc of this moron, so it was an easy pick up
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Pandora's Cube Pirate Sentenced to Jail Time
>> From the pressrelease on businesswire.com:
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WASHINGTON--July 27, 2005--The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) today applauded the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland for handing down a sentence including prison time for Hitesh Patel, an employee of Pandora's Cube, a major retailer of pirated game software and modified game consoles in the Washington, DC area. Judge Peter J. Messitte ordered Patel to serve eight months for his crime, four months in jail and four months of home detention, in addition to 2 years of supervised release.
Patel, 31, of College Park, Maryland, pled guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit felony copyright infringement and to violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Patel managed one of the Pandora's Cube locations and served as technician for all three stores. He assembled and modified Microsoft Xbox video game consoles, turning them into what Pandora's Cube called "Super Xboxes." These "Super Xboxes" defeated the Xbox's copyright protection system and permitted the user to avoid purchasing and paying for legitimate video games. Enacted in 1998, the DMCA prohibits the manufacture and distribution of products or services that circumvent technological protection measures designed to prevent unauthorized access to and copying of copyrighted materials.
The ESA pressrelease fails to mention that these "Super Xboxes" were not just modified, but were also 'preloaded' with 15+ pirated video games on the HDD and sold for $500. Read more about it in our previous articles about this case here and here.
Read the whole pressrelease on businesswire.com.
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