UK Man convicted for modding Xbox
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A 22-year-old man has become the first person in the UK to be convicted for modifying a video games console. I personally don’t think his crime was worth 140 hours of community service, but then again he ran a site selling them!
The conviction is the first of its kind in the UK, where the modification of video games consoles has been an illegal practice since October 2003, when the UK enacted the EU Copyright Directive. The man was sentenced to 140 hours community service and ordered to pay $750 in costs. The court also seized his equipment – three PCs, two printers, three Xbox consoles and 38 hard drives.
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