Playing pirated video games? The Man could be after you next
We’ve all seen the mods…a little chip that magically opens the doors to imports, pirated discs, and who knows what else. If you’re a fan of modding your box, though, the federal government might have you in their sights. Raids in 16 states and 32 businesses and homes occured Wednesday, where federal customs agents dug around for potentially chipped Xboxes, Wiis, and PS2s. The raids are looking to begin stifling an estimated $3 billion that is lost by the worldwide gaming industry due to pirated software…and that’s not including things acquired via the ‘net. Curious if The Man was in your hood? The states involved were California, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin.
ahe th corperate/nanny state BUY OR DIE! noticehow its mostly sttes with left wing demacrats in congress?. aso most of those games the video games would ot be wor it toi tem to g after. hers an idea sell them on PC we don’t need your overpriced consoles.
I stopped once I bought my 360.
My Xbox was sick though…
Yeah that Texas sure does elect lots of democrats to office. What are you talking about?
Republicans are so known for their opposition of big business.
Scary.
i said most not all callifornia bma cratic south carolina new york massacussets
@galv…sorry but, what did you exactly say?
Noooooo we are all Dooooooommmmedd!!!!!
The people they busted must of had some crazy stuff going on, making tons pirated games or something like that. I would assume they are only going after big time pirates.
My PSP likes to play homebrew though.
yeah but most of th e big pirates are in china lol
althogh iv seen ciunterfiting rings selling fake yu-gi-oh cards in CA
stupid. it’ll cost more to operate these kind of raids then the $$ lost in piracy. notice how there are people like me who’d only buy a game console if there are pirates games out there… who’s gonna pay $50+ for a game when we can pay next to nothing? so what now? we’ll expect to see a decline in game console sales, sony, microsoft and nintendo will suffer and blame the feds
exactly mayby if they lowerd he price ther would be no real demad to pirate also notice there how most of the states in the story have oover regulated enviorments. hevy regulation leads to high operating costs, lead to hostile business environs, wich in turn creates an envorment for black markets an crimanals to thrive. the thing about making an honest buck is hey are so hard to mack cause everybodys doing it. So in a way nintendo MS an Sony are the victems of ther own sucsess
wow, gal actually spelled correctly well not entirely but your getting better.
stealing is stealing, if you dont want to get caught then dont steal. Their will always be regulation because their will always be stealing. chicken vs. egg
true but beople can only buy and desire for a certain ammount for so long
Its called self control, if someone cannot control their actions then they have bigger problems to worry about. Its more about people being cheap.
yeah but why is the reson people are cheap?
they can try to controll ther wallet can consumer spending but cant’t control ther desire to have the latest thing. th latest thing is not always the best thing.
Eg the lame cube the N64 the Xbox#^) the the ibrick
the iphone is nothin more an a glorfied verizon phone on a GSM network.
if you gonna buy hight end consoles like a PS3 o xbox 360 you might as well buy Highend destop PC wit a trucload of RAM an decent hard drive and a *00 video card with vista an a highend motherboard wit los of expansion slot cause thats what the xbox basicly is.
the marketing DEPT. has pulled the wool over your eyes folks
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