A College Student could face 10 years for moding consoles

A Southern California college student has been arrested on federal charges that he illegally modified video game consoles to enable the machines to play pirated video games.

Matthew Crippen, 27, faces ten years in jail for tinkering with Xbox, PlayStation and Wii consoles in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents got a tip from the Entertainment Software Association and searched Crippen's home in May.


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Do you thinks others will stop doing this?

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Agnel's Signature:

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^^ course not, he was just unlucky enough, (or just plain stupid), that he got pinched...

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patch01's Signature:

He must have got lot's of Bank Balance till now..........that he will spend it after 10yrs

One random guy got picked I would say. This happens everywhere across the globe.

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Agnel's Signature:

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U guys dont understand....its not only that College Guy, whomsoever caught doing modding consoles, will be BEHIND bars anywhere in this World Modding a Console is Illegal everywhere, but We like Cheap Games

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^

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Agnel's Signature:

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and the pessimist fears this is true

^Hello...i havent purchased any Illegal Games since i Got my PS3

AFAIK Playstation 3 is the ONLY Console that has not been Modded yet even after 3 Years and thats a Record in Video Game Industry

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