In an unusual turn of events, the United States chief prosecutor Allen Chiu has dismissed a lawsuit against a citizen who profited from modding Xbox so that they would be able to play pirated games.
At the beginning of the trial ESA undercover agent Tony Rosario testified that he has covertly filmed Crippen modding an Xbox for $60. It seemed that defendant Matthew Crippen is likely to be sentenced for up to 10 years in jail, but then the presiding judge Philip Gutierrez asked the prosecution to prove that Crippen knew that he was violating piracy laws by offering such service.
At that point, prosecutor Allen Chiu told the court that Crippen used a pirated game to show the undercover agent that the modding was successful. This addition was challenged by the defense attorney Koren Bell who noted that there was no evidence to back that claim and that it wasn’t formally presented in pretrial motions, and hence it is inadmissible.
Worrying that the likely innocent verdict in the case would set a legal precedence, chief prosecutor Allen Chiu admitted that the government had made errors in the case’s preparation and called for it to be dismissed.
RetroSpective
This is bullshit if you ask me , I mean its mot my problem as a consumer if Sony or Microsoft can't make an un- hackeble console … in fact I don't see anything wrong in "customizing" my legally owned console so that It might play DvD's from other regions that normally it wold not … besides I thick that porting games from other (old) consoles and selling them for 40$ its a rip off since you could just get an emulator and play those games …