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It's that time again, friends, to talk about game piracy!
Last week, Pandora's Cube, a retail video game chain in White Marsh and College Park, Maryland, and Springfield, Virginia, were raided by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Customs (otherwise known as the Dept. of Homeland Security after the Sept. 11, 2001 reorganization of federal agencies, including FBI, Customs, Treasury and others) for selling pirate game products.
"The raids on three Washington, D.C. area computer and video game stores that engaged in illegally modifying Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation 2 consoles and pirating video game software were carried out December 1 through the joint participation of the United States Department of Justices Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS), the United States Attorneys Office for the District of Maryland, and the United States Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The three stores are part of a retail chain named "Pandora's Cube," located in shopping centers in White Marsh and College Park, Maryland, and Springfield, Virginia.
During the raids, two Pandoras Cube employees were arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and conspiracy to traffic in a device that circumvents technological protections measures, a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Enacted in 1998, the DMCA prohibits the manufacture and distribution of products or services that circumvent technological protection measures designed to prevent unauthorized access to and copying of copyrighted materials."
Please see http://www.theesa.com/12_8_2004.html for more information.
In short, the stores were selling modded consoles. I suspect the owners/operators/employees of the stores are gonna get jail time without parole in a federal penitentary, plus a fine, plus attorney fees. Sounds expensive and embarassing, doesn't it?
So, friends, the point of this thread is... Don't sell modded consoles unless you want to be a jailhouse bitch.
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Shout outs to DJ Demon J, I Heart Sluts (now in the O.C.) and Lane_Myer.
It's that time again, friends, to talk about game piracy!
Last week, Pandora's Cube, a retail video game chain in White Marsh and College Park, Maryland, and Springfield, Virginia, were raided by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Customs (otherwise known as the Dept. of Homeland Security after the Sept. 11, 2001 reorganization of federal agencies, including FBI, Customs, Treasury and others) for selling pirate game products.
"The raids on three Washington, D.C. area computer and video game stores that engaged in illegally modifying Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation 2 consoles and pirating video game software were carried out December 1 through the joint participation of the United States Department of Justices Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS), the United States Attorneys Office for the District of Maryland, and the United States Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The three stores are part of a retail chain named "Pandora's Cube," located in shopping centers in White Marsh and College Park, Maryland, and Springfield, Virginia.
During the raids, two Pandoras Cube employees were arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and conspiracy to traffic in a device that circumvents technological protections measures, a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Enacted in 1998, the DMCA prohibits the manufacture and distribution of products or services that circumvent technological protection measures designed to prevent unauthorized access to and copying of copyrighted materials."
Please see http://www.theesa.com/12_8_2004.html for more information.
In short, the stores were selling modded consoles. I suspect the owners/operators/employees of the stores are gonna get jail time without parole in a federal penitentary, plus a fine, plus attorney fees. Sounds expensive and embarassing, doesn't it?
So, friends, the point of this thread is... Don't sell modded consoles unless you want to be a jailhouse bitch.
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Shout outs to DJ Demon J, I Heart Sluts (now in the O.C.) and Lane_Myer.