28th June 2003, 11:12 PM
Probably the same place I used to pull all mine from, other message boards :D. That's where the head banging against a brick wall came from. :bang:
As for this article, I don't think MS will take it nearly as seriously as this reporter seems to. First off, I must say I never once understood why modchips were made illegal just because they defeated some safety mechanism. I can understand the piracy issue, but it was also for imports and such, and they blocked out the mod chips that only allow importing by making such a stupid law as well! Second off, just because it doesn't use a mod chip doesn't mean this method isn't breaking the law (wow that's a negative heavy sentence...). They are still defeating a safety mechanism, and I'm pretty much certain MS will more than likely sue them over this should they actually go about doing this, sadly enough. I have no feelings either way about it. I have no reason to actually want to use Lynux on my XBox for one, and I really don't see any moral problems with the thing either (unless someone uses it for pirating software, but that's not the fault of the modification itself mind you) aside from it breaking that stupid law (which I'll stand by until it's changed I guess), so I'm in the middle.
Still, as I said, MS seems to have nothing to fear from this except they will need a new checking method to block XBoxes from XBox Live (nothing against that either, modify as one will, it's your XBox, but don't complain about being blocked, because it's MS's service, you just get to use it).
As for this article, I don't think MS will take it nearly as seriously as this reporter seems to. First off, I must say I never once understood why modchips were made illegal just because they defeated some safety mechanism. I can understand the piracy issue, but it was also for imports and such, and they blocked out the mod chips that only allow importing by making such a stupid law as well! Second off, just because it doesn't use a mod chip doesn't mean this method isn't breaking the law (wow that's a negative heavy sentence...). They are still defeating a safety mechanism, and I'm pretty much certain MS will more than likely sue them over this should they actually go about doing this, sadly enough. I have no feelings either way about it. I have no reason to actually want to use Lynux on my XBox for one, and I really don't see any moral problems with the thing either (unless someone uses it for pirating software, but that's not the fault of the modification itself mind you) aside from it breaking that stupid law (which I'll stand by until it's changed I guess), so I'm in the middle.
Still, as I said, MS seems to have nothing to fear from this except they will need a new checking method to block XBoxes from XBox Live (nothing against that either, modify as one will, it's your XBox, but don't complain about being blocked, because it's MS's service, you just get to use it).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)