RE: Jail for seller of illegal Xbox chips

["Rob Mouser" <rmouser@xxxxxxx>]

It would be interesting to know what percentage of the 140,000 hits a
day were for *non* piracy interest i.e. HA.
Surely if that many people have a want/need then Microsoft would add it
to the feature list.

/me being very naive to think MS don't have MUCH bigger plans for the
dominance of HA. Just read the stuff on SPOT etc.

Many thanks

Rob Mouser
rmouser@xxxxxxx
rob@xxxxxxx


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 10 April 2003 17:46
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d]Jail for seller of illegal Xbox chips
>
> Well, as bad as the US DMCA is, it looks to be quite a balanced bit of
> legislation compared to the modifications just made the copyright law
in
> the
> UK :
>
> Unfortunately, trying to mobilise and motivate people to write to
their
> MPs,
> express an opinion, or even to just simply *care* about this sort of
> legislation is difficult, despite the success of people like
stand.org.uk
>
> The discussions in this group have been a perfect example of why this
is a
> bad thing (tm) the XBox modchip discussions all focus on the cool HA
uses
> of
> them. I don't think I saw anything other than a passing comment about
not
> having to buy games, yet the legislation "to control piracy"
is being
used
> to prevent people from using the device they have purchased in the way
> they
> want.
>
> I'm thinking very seriously about an X-Box for our living room, and on
a
> matter of principle, there won't ever be a game played on it: I'm
viewing
> it
> as a network enabled DVD/Divx/Mp3 player.
>
> I.
>
>
>
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