Re: One word... Moronic.

[Martin Howell <martin.howell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

where?, where?

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Paul Gordon wrote:

>Here, here!
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
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>>Ian Lowe
>>Sent: 04 July 2005 19:35
>>To: UKHA_D Group
>>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 modded
Xboxes,
>>*WITH GAMES INSTALLED* and the court system which seems to think
that
>>the problem here is not the piracy of the games, but the
modification
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>>the console. This guy is an absolute textbook case of piracy -
selling
>>copyright material for money - so why is the modification of the
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>>How many of us here have modded Xboxes to run XBMC and act as a
media
>>centre?
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>>Personally, I don't play a single xbox game - it's a cool bit of
>>hardware, nothing more. That I could be charged with
"circumventing
>>copyright protection" when I have no interest *whatsoever* in
doing so
>>is just plain infuriating.
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>>The sooner this ludicrous situation with regards to
"piracy" and
>>"copyright" is sorted out the better - it's out of all
proportion to
>>what any sane person would consider fair.
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>>Ian.
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