
U.S. prosecutors have charged three men with copyright infringement for selling modified Xbox consoles that enabled the Xbox console to play pirated games.
The criminal complaint filed in federal court in Los Angeles on Monday named ACME Game Store co-owners Jason Jones, 34, and Jonathan Bryant, 44, as well as Pei "Patrick" Cai, 32.
The complaint alleges that Jones and Bryant sold Xbox systems that Cai modified with chips and hard drives that allowed users to copy rented or borrowed games onto the console for future play.
Jones and Bryant demonstrated the modified Xbox game consoles in their Melrose Avenue store. They charged from $225 to more than $500 for the modifications, depending on the extent of the modifications and the number of games preloaded onto the hard drive, according to a statement from prosecutors and the complaint affidavit obtained by Reuters.
During the investigation, undercover agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement paid $265 to have a modification chip, a hard drive and 77 pirated games installed on an Xbox, according to the criminal complaint.
The original Xbox was released in late 2001 and now retails for around $150. Games for the system cost up to $50 each.
Microsoft... Gotta love em... Back to downloading pirated Microsoft software :)
Posted by
Anonymous |
3:54 AM
cant wait for Xbox360 mod
Posted by
Anonymous |
5:51 AM
hahaha..
I guess the xbox 360 mods are in the works?
Posted by
Anonymous |
8:33 AM
There is already a team working on Modifiying the xbox 360.
They are half way there.
Posted by
Anonymous |
9:36 AM
Had they not preloaded it with games they probably couldn't have touched them. The fools should learn to cover their asses better.
Posted by
Anonymous |
9:49 AM
yeah lol they couldnt have done shit if it was just modded but the morons had to preload games
Posted by
Anonymous |
1:40 PM
Good, they had it coming. Its illegal, meaning its as wrong as doing anything else against the law.
Posted by
Anonymous |
4:05 PM
Hockeychaoz ur a complete idiot "its against the law" u ass ur prolly downloading porn rite now so cut it with the "good guy act" cuz it aint foolin no1
Posted by
Anonymous |
4:19 PM
yea your an idiot you idiot!!
Posted by
Anonymous |
4:26 PM
yeah well its pointless for it to be illegal, you bought it in the first place, what you do with it is up to you! thats like you getting arrested for breaking your $200 watch...its rediculous! microsoft has enough money, people put a lot of work into making something they bought better (since its not at its full when you pay the money for it) if microsoft cant make a good system...they have every right to do microsofts job better
Posted by
Anonymous |
7:58 PM
well those guys deserved to get busted what douch bags sell pirated games to the public in there own store needs to be the next stupied crimes show. Well someone has to be held accountable "roflmao". Mods are out guys running linux to make your very own media center pc. Good luck with that.
Posted by
Anonymous |
11:00 PM
Microsoft's just upset that my modded xbox does everything that the 360 does, just with lesser graphics.
Posted by
Anonymous |
11:46 PM
i got that shit. its fuckin tyte. jus buy a hard drive. easy to do, jus get xecuter 2 and smartxx installed on that and replace old hard drive. only thing is tha t online play might not word unless u switch between hard drives. TOTALLY WORTH IT!!! the only games that i have trouble with are gun and basically all nba games. FUCK YOU MICROSOFT, rich bitches
Posted by
Anonymous |
1:34 AM
i have done this. get a new hard drive, like 200 gb type shit and ur set. install xecuter 2 for old x box and smartxx for newer ones. FUCK U MICROSOFT, rich bitches
Posted by
Anonymous |
1:40 AM
I have 2 modded Xbox, i buy and sell pirated games.
And i don't enough money to buy ariginals.
1 original game = 1 month of work for me.
Posted by
Anonymous |
3:33 AM
if $50 is one month of work for you get a better fucking job! if you mean you ahve that much left over for games then buy a good game once a month, what's the problem?
Posted by
Anonymous |
5:12 AM
pot is indeed expensive
Posted by
Anonymous |
10:16 AM
I'm not saying that i haven't downloaded a game or two or modded my own system but to sell the system is just senseless. And to have like $1,000 worth of games is putting up a sign saying "Please arrest me Bill Gates, I downloaded your games then uploaded them on my xbox. Oh yes that was before i downloaded kiddy porn." Come on guys, They don't care what we do to our systems, you can even upload your bought games to save the hassle of changing discs. Make them run Mac OS X x86 , that would be nice but don't sell them with copy right infringment on them.
Posted by
Anonymous |
10:26 AM
Saying ha "fuck you microsoft" is showing immaturity, and just how young you are.
Maybe you should consider growing up a bit before posting on a grown up site's.
the very fact that you need to "stick the finger" to someone who you are insinuating represents authority, (i.e. microsoft) shows that you are probably still in secondary school.
Congratulations your getting one over on a corporate company, enjoy it while it lasts you second rate consumer.
"Pocket money only allows me to get one game a month..."
well boo hoo it's a commodity, a luxury - not a neccessity.
MTV generation - I want I get.
There is no hope for the future.
Please help make the world a better place and end your life now...if you can't bring yourself to do that just DON'T REPRODUCE.
Posted by
Anonymous |
4:28 PM
hahaha that was amazing!!!
Posted by
Anonymous |
9:20 PM
first off msoft has closed off 50% of the
sysmems resorses
the same thing on the psp but ten times more is psp2 what the hell do thay think is going
to happen here
here in Greece the former ceo of sony first sold the modchip (former ceo)
helll here we have more then one mchip
hehehe
Posted by
mike |
4:18 AM
idiots
learn how to spell
Posted by
Anonymous |
7:16 PM
Regardless of Microsoft's position in the computer / gaming industry they have every right to obtain money for their labors just like everybody else.
Now don't me wrong, modifying your XBox
or PC, or whatever is your personal decision and sometimes can greatly increased the gameplay / usability / whatever but selling the mod.s is afterall copyright infringement, and the preloaded games.. that was really dumb, especially out of their own store.
If you ever watched Pinky and the Brain always remember criminals say "narf!"
Posted by
Anonymous |
9:02 PM
If there's any1 in the Philadelphia,PA area who mods
E-MAIL ME @
XB_Mods@hotmail.com
Yeah... they shouldn't have offered games...
What you do with a retail purchase is up to you...
With the new DVD disk standerds & other protection it might take awhile for a full 360 mod but lol it to shall come toO pass...
FYI: Laws R written to curb soceities un-wanted behaviors;
so bend the law as much as you like, that's what the loop-holes & grey(interpative) R there for...
Just don't break it.....
In a retail place of business at least
Unless u hold a gov. job...
I'm also always looking for more ppl for the "FREE" sites ;-)
-NARF
Posted by
Anonymous |
9:55 PM
I SMELL FED
Posted by
Anonymous |
2:28 AM
"People, People, come together!!!
Lets just think of them as evil annoying idiot fucks."
Most people have engaged in piracy at some stage!!! Recording off the television to VCR is piracy. Recording casette tapes off radio or other tapes / CD is the same. Nowadays people have at least 1 mp3 floating around somewhere on your hard drive that YOU DIDN'T PAY FOR!!! So can it!
Posted by
Anonymous |
3:02 PM
Piracy is inevitable. So long as there is a gap in rich and poor there will be piracy. Dont blame the people who pirate, blame the technology which enables them to pirate. Why dont we blame MP3 Rippers? Why dont we blame DVD/CD Writers? These are the tools to be blame...the rest just makes simple financial sense...
Posted by
Anonymous |
8:30 PM