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Hackers sued for tinkering with Xbox games
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2005-02-09

In the first case of its kind, a California video game maker is suing an entire community of software tinkerers for reverse engineering and modifying Xbox games that they legally purchased.

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moral rights, not in the USA 2005-02-11
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Moral Rights indeed. 2005-02-11
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Anonymous
Not to mention you list a .gov.uk site which oddly enough looks like a United Kingdom site. These charges are being pressed in the US. UK law does not apply because neither the company, nor the defendant are in the UK.

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"We spent millions of dollars to develop these games, and people are coming in and changing the code to their liking, and that's illegal." 2005-02-11
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