Posted 08/10/2009 at 10:34:25pm

The best part of this is the fact that the hacked console is an xbox, not an iphone, not a ps3, not a wii, not a nintendo ds. I mean it would be another thing if it was an xbox 360 that was hacked. Microsoft has discountinued manufacturing of the original xbox and xbox games unlike what sony has done with the different versions of the ps1 and the games still coming out for it. Even gamestops have stopped taking xbox's and xbox games (at least in my area). There is no more market for this any more so the impact this college student could have is very slim. Now I'm not saying he's innocent and he shouldn't be punished, but A) Homeland Security? And B) a discountinued console? 

 And the even more best part? A hacked xbox can do what? Yea I know lots of things, things like say an unhacked just out of the box pc can do? Haha. I haven't pirated anything since Napster honestly, but geez who ever was buying these hacked xbox's should have just gotten a computer off of craigslist and looked up an article or too about bit torrents.

Stephen H. Robbins

Posted 10/05/2007 at 12:38:14am

i haven't paid detailed attention to any of the cases out there, only heard brief headline rambles before changing the channel from news to family guy. with this topic i can't only think about copywright dealing with digital files shared over the internet. how many of you ever taped a tv show or movie off of your television with that dusty vcr player? that should cost you seven hundred bucks. and how many have ever been passed a scanned copy of a publication either in class, church, etc.? someone owes seven hundred dollars per page. who's ever taped their favorite song off of the radio? remember mixed tapes? copyright infringement has been happening increasingly with the exponential growth of technology, have the laws? this controversy is now at a ridiculous climax that hopefully is upon its plateau. this issue may have been brought up before, i don't know. copyright laws are not in place to protect physical hands on copies that if taken are just simply stolen. what is being taken now is intellectual property but it falls under the same concept. is downloading a file stealing, unethical, or immoral? do they really think that with technology ever progressing that they will stop this. something needs to change, the owners of the intellectual property should still be compensated, yet prosecutions are taking this to an extreme measure. they need to stop fighting that breaking this law in this manner draws upon these extreme measures because it's really that bad. we should organize where the only illegal files downloaded occur from one ip address at a time with as many people using that bandwidth as possible so that they can't narrow it down to one of us. this is all simply out of date. one on one we can beat them and one on one they can beat us, nothing will happen from this. hello congress! our laws and definitions of this issue in the justice seem are screaming to be redefined, reinvented, and compatible with today.