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Attack of the Mod Squads
Mark Rasch, 2002-10-28

Game console mod chips can be used for everything from watching movies to installing Linux on your X-Box. But under goofy copyright laws, the piracy app kills all the others.

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ModChips and X-box 2002-10-28
Nicholas Weaver
Another factor, which is Microsoft specific, is that a mod-chipped X-box DOES have substantial non-infringing uses (Linux Workstations), but this use significantly detracts from Microsoft's bottom line.

As the X-box costs money for Microsoft to produce, it is critical that X-box users also buy games. Anyone who buys an X-box to run one of the new Linux installs (which require a modchip) is costing Microsoft money.

An interesting test would be a modchip X-box with Xbox linux preinstalled, as it is being shipped in a form which has a significant noninfringing use.


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You missed part of the point 2002-10-28
Anonymous (1 replies)
Re: You missed part of the point 2002-11-07
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