For the republican discussion:
They way the world is going more and more rights have to be given up. With more and more people on this planet brings more and more wackos that dont care about anything. All it takes is a few extremists to do alot of damage to alot of people. SO, to minimize this we have to give up more rights(to when it will end I dont know). Back in the old days you could take your gun to the bar, what do you think would happen if everyone could do that today?
The EULA discussion:
Sony has gone through this same thing in the court system (although it was in a down-under society and would have surley not been the same outcome in our beloved USA), and basicly when we mod our systems we get around the copy protection scheme, thus violating the agrement. You seriously think MS had no clue of what a mod chip is and that people might try to do it to their system? Come on give M$ some credit for being intelegent. The only arguments that stands is to say you legitlmently bought DVD's and games from other countries and you wanted to play them, also you like to back up your games, but the aussie court said you must have a piece of the cd or dvd game to prove you purchased it in order to legally back it up. It does not matter how baddly damaged it is as long as you have a recognizable piece.