Comments on: Video game pirate headed to slammer

Maryland man gets jail time for selling modified Xboxes that store and play pirated video games.

[wazzledoozle]

So..

Adding more hard drive space to an xbox is a crime?

Yes he did preload some with games which is bad, but tha part about selling xbox's capable of playing copyrighted games!?! Thats like saying were arresting you because you sold your dell with linux on it which could potentially could be used for hacking and pirating.

[Had_to_be_said]

Yes, you are exactly right...

There IS a concerted effort to intentionally blur the line between "Piracy" (illegally stealing media-content) and modifying your own property, ...in this case an "X-Box" (which is Microsofts prototype for its vision of the future "Trusted-PC", by the way).

The reason that this type of thing is being done (using the "DMCA", in this case) is clearly so that, shortly, you as a consumer will have no real ownership-rights with regards to the products that you buy, ...unless the company that sells you the product, grants them to you (probably a much higher price, ...if at all).

Frankly, in todays political-climate, I seriously doubt that "Fair-use", or even basic "personal property-rights" are going to exist at all, for much longer.

Yep, and CNET is only making it worse

"Maryland man gets jail time for selling modified Xboxes that store and play pirated video games." ? Seriously you guys are only part of the problem with headlines like that.

How about you say "Maryland man gets jail time for selling pirated video games stored on an XBOX" ?

Get some integrity. Thanks.

[R. U. Sirius]

Illegal to store games on an XBox

Hey now, I don't own an Xbox, but I thought it was basically a specialized PC. Huh? Well, why is it illegal to store games on a specialized PC?

"Well Prof. Sirius, that's because this dude pirated games" you say to me. I reply, "okay, so why not arrest him for selling pirated games? What does the XBox have to do with the price of the Yuan in China?"

Answer: nothing. It's a red herring meant to get us all to agree that we can't store programs that we buy (and games are programs) on "specialized" PCs. And watch, down the road ALL PC's will be labeled as "specialized".

I WAS AN EX EMPLOYEE HERE IS THE INFO!

I had worked at Pandora's Cube during the summer of 2004. yes Pandora's Cube did install larger harddrives, modchips and other sorts. THEY EVEN INSTALLED HARD DRIVES ONTO PS2's! when I had gotten fired for allegedly leaking information i went straight to Sony Computer Entertainment of America and geuss what they said? some stupid guy couldnt take my seriously and just said "dont use the software it will void your ps2" what the **** is that? so then i proceded to go to Microsoft, oh did they care. they took my information and a month later, december, they raided the place.. i also had gotten a couple of my friends to call in also so it sounded credable because i wanted to get the upmost revenge.

ABOUT THE XBOX!!!!!!

certain xbox's had certain hard drive sizes. like for instance a regular black xbox could be upgraded with an 80-250 gig hd with mod chip for a price between 300-600 bucks. Now those "limited edition" silver xbox's could be sold for upwards of a grand with built in lights on the xbox and also on the controller. i had the job of installing games on the xbox, some of the limited edition crystal xboxs had up to 50 GAMES ON THEM! and we sold atleast one a day at each of the 3 stores and boy did they make a hell of a profit while me being 15 was paid a sucky 5 bucks an hour, not even minimum wage but he was paying me in cash so i didnt have taxes taken.

ABOUT THE PS2!

The ps2's could only support hard drives of up to 120 gigs and he would get the software disc off the net for 15 bucks a pop and would sell them to my friends and such for 80 bucks a freaking pop! not even employee's got the discount and yes, once agian they installed a bunch of games onto the hard drive.

Pandora's cube in corrupt! they even sell boot leg anime and video games. People can come and trade in their games for cash, but he'll give you pennies you'd be lucky to even get a dollar if you brought in 5 ps2 games and then he'd repackage them and sell them as FULLY NEW GAMES. and also he (hitesh) would let customers pick out any game they wanted, used or new and upload it to their system for 5 bucks a pop and then he'd repackage it to make it look like a brand new game and sell it at the MSRP.

in all, pandora's is horrible!

CONTACT THEM AND MAKE FUN OF THEM HERE IS THEIR SITE

www.pandorascube.com