When you guys argue without facts - you just look dumb. 
Geez
STFU. I linked you to an Australian court case in which Sony tried to shut down mod chips (the court felt the same way as us, btw), and pointed out that no games companies have attempted to use the provision of DMCA that you incessantly refer to. Your dismal reading comprehension skills do not amount to us refusing to back up our opinions with fact. And your dismal attempts to talk in legal language do not make you a lawyer ("I want proof that someone in standing in law says it is LEGAL TO USE MODCHIPS.").
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Its legal in Austrailia. Get caught by cops over there and you are free from procecution, well until 2007 when they have to change that law to be in line with new trade agreements. My apologies to the Austrailian posters on this site. Its not legal here in the UK or in the US where this site is hosted.
Coming back to what Shmokes was saying, well...what were you saying? You need to take some advice from your quotation from your post. Yes for

sake shmokes, get a grip.
Well, from a technical user's standpoint - and this is a technical user's forum - you've just described a bunch of mostly useless m0dz. You're ricing out your Xbox with lights and a pretty case and various other things that don't make it any more useful than it was when you took it out of the box. The USB mod is useful in some ways but not all that many.
Given the nature of this forum, which is to build things, open things up and change them functionally, repair things from a broken state, or to restore things from a diminished state, an Xbox mod thread can be expected to include modchips and other such functional changes (the USB port changes would apply here).
The social onus is on you to digest the culture of this forum and integrate. It is not the other way around.
To be totally honest I wish I could mod the xbox I have, but I cannot. Yes I would love to have a cheap media centre and play music and movies. In another earlier post - I noted that there was a good deal going for xbox and 4 games for £50. £50 for a media centre PC would be a dream come true. And I have seen XBMC and it is really wonderful. It's all very tempting, and if I am in my own home - who's right is it to tell me what to do?
Well I have a little voice in my head that says I cannot. Its the little voice of reason. Even if I can do a thing, it has to be the right, honest and just thing. That is why I try to walk the straight line. I'm not a paragon of virtue, who isn't?
I changed the leads to my xbox so I can charge my USB devices. Every time I hook my Ipod shuffle to the PC it wipes the tracks off. Quite annoying. But with the USB from the xbox I don't have that problem. I play a lot of Soul Calibre on my cab, so the USB on port 4 does a lot of work too.
Works great with the X Arcade, but its a cable mod and a worthy inclusion in this thread as it is a Xbox Mod. No great harm done.
From a technical standpoint - this site and Saint's Book is about modifying arcade controls and building cabinets, not chipping xboxes. This is not my site. And when I visit other peoples site, I try to observe the rules.
Someone mentioned you got a ticket for speeding. Going 25mph. Not so fast that you could kill someone, but fast enough if you were going 25mph in a 10mph school zone. What is it $100 each mile an hour you go over? Or perhaps you were going too slow, becoming a hazard. Whatever - you got caught and you have to pay a fine, pay higher insurance or go to drivers school.
But you got caught doing something you are not allowed to do by law. I always remember the driving handbook slogan "Driving is a privilege not a right". I remember it to this day. It reminds me of this site. Its always a privilege to post here, not a right. If you get caught with your xbox mod, who knows which book they thow at you.
Technically speaking I love a great joypad hack, or building a star wars yoke or finding ways to hook up light guns to PCs and xboxes. So finally on a technical standpoint this post/argument is over, because a xbox chipping mod is Illegal by the DMCA. No Ifs buts or maybes.
At least I tried to give a good argument against this thread, even though it means alot to you guys. I bet the past 5 years has been like candyland. Free Mp3s, Torrents, Roms, etc. Never worrying about those people who invest in games or hardware that try to make a living. No.
Who cares right?
Its Finito Bandito. For me on this subject. Goodnight.
