By Laurie Sullivan, TechWeb Technology News
Two store owners and a third man were charged on Monday in a federal copyright infringement case for allegedly selling modified Microsoft Corp. Xbox consoles that allowed them to play pirated video games copied onto a multi-gigabyte hard drive.
The game consoles were modified with a new control chip and a 250 gigabyte hard drive. The embedded software on the chip creates a new start menu. "Turn on the Xbox, and the software comes up with the name of the modification chip," said Thomas Loeser, assistant United States attorney in Los Angeles. "You'll page through a menu similar to Windows browser to select any internal game to play it."
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3 comments:
people have been doing this for as almost as long as the first xbox came out, and they are still doing it now. Just goes to show that they havent stopped catching them, that and Crime doesnt pay. Unless you consider Lawyers criminals :P
this might of been a double post, not sure since i dont think it went through the first time, if so my bad
Yea what frito said. O and Microsoft Snowcat has one of these.
That boy's gonna get himself in trouble.
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