QUOTE(throwingks @ May 14 2006, 09:40 PM)
I agree, but has that law been deemed legal? I am not trying to be a pest. I am just saying I haven't heard of any cases where it was challenged and the outcome.
I do not think a mod-chip alone can do any of those things. The BIOS needed to make it happen, is the illegal part. If you have an unflashed modchip installed to your console, it does nothing illegal.
I also think OpenXDK is legal as long as it doesn't try to circumvent copy prevention measures. So we can legally run homebrew eventually. But, not yet.
As of right now, anyone with XBMC is a felon... I think?
DMCA has been signed by both houses and is on the books.
QUOTE(throwingks @ May 14 2006, 09:40 PM)
I do not think a mod-chip alone can do any of those things. The BIOS needed to make it happen, is the illegal part. If you have an unflashed modchip installed to your console, it does nothing illegal.
Thats what the modchip sellers and those that fianancially benifit from this site
WISH and perpetuate.
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to `circumvent a technological measure' means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner;
This is a felony, and describes a modchip to the T, the software is an additional count of copyright.
I may be mistaken but isnt XDK copyrighted intellectual property, which is illegal to modify much like modding winodows (i.e end user agreement)
I am studying law and what facinates me is the perception/intepretation of law, rather popular or unpopular.