People have been posting all over about this guy getting arrersted for modding xbox 360's which is against the piracy act? Something about modifying the xbox from its original state is against the piracy act.


Anyone have any REAL clarification on this? People are posting all over the place about it being illegal. I always thought it was legal

You should note, i have modded over 500+ systems and I also can mod from my laptop.

I just want to know if what I am doing is going to get me into trouble and what I am facing

Don't know about other countries but here in the US it is illegal because of the DMCA it makes bypassing any form of copy protection illegal. That is why I will only mod consoles for people I know personally.

The general rule I follow is if you have to ask it is probably illegal.

you bought it it's yours you can do what you want with it....

it's the how you use it after the mod that causes most problems

if you go online with your modded system then your violating the terms of
agreement that you agreed to when you sign up with live. somewhere in
there is says you can't do modifications to you console. if you do your
console can be banned. and once you play a non - legit backup then your
breaking the law.... your allowed to make 1 archival backup per original
disc you own. but to play these you have to mod your system which again
violates the terms of agreement you agreed to with microsoft. so it's a
catch 22 your damed if you do and damned if you don't.

so even if your modding it to play your own legit personal backups your
original game you own then your ok, but you are violating the terms of
agreement with microsoft & your console can be banned.

so what do you do?

now what gets in trouble with the feds is when your start modding systems
and charging a fee for doing it!!!! this falls under the (Digital Millenium
Copywrite Act of 2000) thank Bill clinton for this one!!!

circumnavigating copy protection - now your enabling other systems other
then just your own for archival purposes and now profiting from it.

big no no with the feds.....

and if your selling backup's for profit that's even worse!!!

then you can be fined for every backup you've made (i think it's like
up to $50,000 per copy you've made......)

what it comes down to is piracy is illegal don't do it, the only one you hurt
is yourself and other legit games, buy driving up the costs of games.
and even putting companies out of business because they are not making
any money.

go legit and buy your games, treat your games like gold so they don't
get damaged and then they will last you a long time.

I guess I am out of business then...

Trouble sounds like it is around the corner

depends on what country you live in in Canada we don't have the laws yet

USA of course