Modchips are legal in the UK!

" Modchips do not circumvent copyright protection."

That will be appealled.

Kind of a weird decision. Although modchips aren' t necessarily wrong, kind of like Bittorrent-technology isn' t illegal in itself. But in reality the main uses of it are kind of different of course

Sounds reasonable. People should be able to do whatever the *** they want to their hardware.

I don' t understand why console companies don' t just save themselves the hassle and just add homebrew features to their consoles, that way people have less of an excuse to use modchips. If someone wants to make a ***ing NES emulator for 360 let them, don' t make them buy a modchip and then be tempted to pirating actual 360 games.

ORIGINAL: emofag

Sounds reasonable. People should be able to do whatever the *** they want to their hardware.

I don' t understand why console companies don' t just save themselves the hassle and just add homebrew features to their consoles, that way people have less of an excuse to use modchips. If someone wants to make a ***ing NES emulator for 360 let them, don' t make them buy a modchip and then be tempted to pirating actual 360 games.

That' s exactly what I said a while back. The only real way for things like piracy, hacking and cracking to really be solved is to completely open the system up. The only real way to solve piracy on a system - especially PC, is to make the software free, but subsidize costs through alternate methods such as advertising. It' s not like it hasn' t been done before either. Google makes hundreds of millions through advertising, while their core services are still free.

But in reality this will probably never happen for most software, which means piracy will always be a problem. Companies will continue to spend millions of dollars on useless DRM systems that will be reverse engineered and cracked within days of going public.