RE: One word... Moronic.

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm...

"The man was sentenced to 140 hours community service and ordered to
pay
=A3750 in costs. The court also seized his equipment - three PCs, two
printers, three Xbox consoles and 38 hard drives."

Wonder whether they'd sell his hard discs cheap - I'm running a bit short
o=
f
space on the movies server. :-D

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]=20
> On Behalf Of Paul Gordon
> Sent: 04 July 2005 20:38
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] One word... Moronic.
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> Here, here!
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> Paul G.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx=20
> [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
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> > Ian Lowe
> > Sent: 04 July 2005 19:35
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> > Subject: [ukha_d] One word... Moronic.
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> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4650225.stm
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> > And that could be applied either to the idiot who sold=20
> modded Xboxes,=20
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> > the problem here is not the piracy of the games, but the=20
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> > How many of us here have modded Xboxes to run XBMC and act=20
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> > Personally, I don't play a single xbox game - it's a cool bit
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> > hardware, nothing more. That I could be charged with
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> > copyright protection" when I have no interest
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> > The sooner this ludicrous situation with regards to
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