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XBOX modders caught. Might be facing Prison time if convicted.
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 04, 2010, 10:13:26 am ---
--- Quote from: saint on December 03, 2010, 05:57:12 pm ---Not everyone is a pirate...
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"Not everyone" isn't much of a sample size. The vast majority of modders are pirates. We've all been around long enough to know this. Jim actually hit it on the head earlier - people need to accept the moral implications of their actions and stop rationalizing. Wanting it, and being able to get it, doesn't make it more right. Do it and accept what it means or don't do it.
And before anyone asks, yes, I've ripped a couple of rented DVDs in my day. It doesn't bother me. I don't have a MAME machine because as a software developer the idea of pirated ROMs does bother me. I have several modded Xboxes to watch those movies on but have no pirated Xbox games.
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You post stating that the vast majority of modders are pirates, yet you say that pirated roms bothers you, even though you have modded several xboxes.
That doesn't make any sense. Does it? Especially when you "obtained" BAED roms to play in your modded xboxes. :lol
Like you I buy all my commercial Xbox games. Retired 8/16 bit console games are fair play in my book, for personal use.
I'm sure you have quite a [legitimate] collection, but I do not believe you do not have a Mame library in your PC/Xbox, whatever, regardless of your [unbelievable] self-imposed professional constraints.
WhereEaglesDare:
Lets all go to the lobby... and get ourselves a snack!
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on December 04, 2010, 05:28:42 pm ---That doesn't make any sense. Does it? Especially when you "obtained" BAED roms to play in your modded xboxes. :lol
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Heh, I did that. I wanted to see if the emulators worked well enough so my kids could play the NES SMB games without hassling with a blinky NES. It doesn't follow the letter of the law but yes, I own about 10 copies of SMB and 5 each of SMB2/3, so it does follow the spirit. The emulator isn't fast enough so we probably played that disc 3 times.
--- Quote ---Retired 8/16 bit console games are fair play in my book, for personal use.
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They are sold for use on the Wii Virtual Console. That makes the software very much still revenue generating intellectual property.
--- Quote ---I'm sure you have quite a [legitimate] collection, but I do not believe you do not have a Mame library in your PC/Xbox, whatever, regardless of your [unbelievable] self-imposed professional constraints.
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You can believe what you want. I only own one raster vid and really don't have much interest in them. My whole collection, other than a Berzerk/Frenzy, is Atari vectors and pins. I plan on eventually building a couple VectorMAME cabs and I'll deal with the morality of it when the time comes. What I won't do is march around pretending I didn't pirate the games. That's my whole point. Every person can choose what they do but if one isn't honest with everybody else at least that person should be honest with himself.
--- Quote from: WhereEaglesDare on December 05, 2010, 09:44:48 am ---Lets all go to the lobby... and get ourselves a snack!
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gnateye:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on December 03, 2010, 07:18:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: saint on December 03, 2010, 05:57:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 03, 2010, 02:23:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on December 02, 2010, 10:26:41 pm ---Wrong answer. My XBOX has never seen a game since I've owned it. Period. Legal or otherwise. I modded it to use with XBMC as a cheap media player.
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Pirated movies. Whatever. :laugh2: :hissy
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I have several hundred movies on my media server. Not a single one is pirated. They are all ripped from my original and safely kept DVDs. My originals are safe from the destruction my kids heap upon media, and movies can be accessed anywhere in the house there's a network connection. I don't use a modded console for that, but I considered it.
Not everyone is a pirate... :dunno
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+1
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+2, i have 3 modded original Xboxes that just run XMBC, to play my legally owned and ripped music and movies, anywhere in my house. its much cheaper to buy a 20$ xbox (or three) and do a softmod, then to buy a HTPC or any of the set top boxes floating around,
but,
i agree the heart of the matter is whether we as product OWNERS can do whatever we want to our "purchased products". we are modders and tinkerers, we are curious about how things work and how they can be made better, or used more to our personal needs.
the double standard of "certain people are allowed to mod and the rest not. or heads of industry can pirate music and movies and not get in trouble the rest of us can't", needs to stop. arrest people for pirating, not for making things that can be used for pirating.... we didn't kill all ship builders to end piracy on the 7 seas, we went after pirates, and made the world a different place, where pirates were not effective or needed...
i've ranted enough for today 8) that's just my 2 cents and it wont change anyones ideas or opinions but i thought we needed another vote for modded non-pirate xboxes
Malenko:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 04, 2010, 10:13:26 am ---And before anyone asks, yes, I've ripped a couple of rented DVDs in my day. It doesn't bother me. I don't have a MAME machine because as a software developer the idea of pirated ROMs does bother me. I have several modded Xboxes to watch those movies on but have no pirated Xbox games.
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--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 02, 2007, 03:27:55 pm ---I, erm, don't usually bother to convert them myself. Y'argh.
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I guess if you made movies only then would you not steal them.
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