Indeed.. I still haven't heard back from anyone here in the US. They raided my shop, took my stuff, and have disappeared for 10 months. While I suppose no news is good news, I'd rather not have this continually hanging over my head. At least here's some good news from across the pond; here's to hoping it happens here to (and kills of the DMCA to boot). USC 17 § 1201 (The anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA) is quite probably one of the worst, most corporate biased, and unfair laws on our books at the moment. Making it illegal to merely access a copyrighted work, even if its for otherwise legitimate and legal purposes is downright moronic and falls far short of a law that makes sense.
Corporations have been abusing copyright to extort money out of consumers for too long and it needs to stop. Making someone pay for a DVD and then pay again to legally be able to watch it on their iPod is simply unfair. If I want to modify my console to turn it into a media center or a linux box I should have every right to (As I should to be able to run my otherwise legally created single backup copy under fair use laws). If I want to fix my xbox's broken hard drive myself without paying microsoft an exorbitant amount of money, I should be able to (something only possible with a modchip as m$ locks the hdd to the Motherboard and wont normally boot with an unlocked hdd). If you use modchips for piracy then you should indeed be prosecuted, just as if you use a baseball bat to kill someone. But to make tools that have many, many legal uses illegal is simply not reasonable or fair.
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Anon @ Jun 13th 2008 12:12PM
Indeed.. I still haven't heard back from anyone here in the US. They raided my shop, took my stuff, and have disappeared for 10 months. While I suppose no news is good news, I'd rather not have this continually hanging over my head. At least here's some good news from across the pond; here's to hoping it happens here to (and kills of the DMCA to boot). USC 17 § 1201 (The anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA) is quite probably one of the worst, most corporate biased, and unfair laws on our books at the moment. Making it illegal to merely access a copyrighted work, even if its for otherwise legitimate and legal purposes is downright moronic and falls far short of a law that makes sense.
Corporations have been abusing copyright to extort money out of consumers for too long and it needs to stop. Making someone pay for a DVD and then pay again to legally be able to watch it on their iPod is simply unfair. If I want to modify my console to turn it into a media center or a linux box I should have every right to (As I should to be able to run my otherwise legally created single backup copy under fair use laws). If I want to fix my xbox's broken hard drive myself without paying microsoft an exorbitant amount of money, I should be able to (something only possible with a modchip as m$ locks the hdd to the Motherboard and wont normally boot with an unlocked hdd). If you use modchips for piracy then you should indeed be prosecuted, just as if you use a baseball bat to kill someone. But to make tools that have many, many legal uses illegal is simply not reasonable or fair.