ghrogels
01-30-2004, 09:23 PM
i like to vent about the DMCA when ever i can, and would like to know if there are any legislative updates out there, anyhow.
my friend breaks his Halo Disc, and I'm like: "well, you can't play burned X-Box Discs unless you have a mod chip, which you have to soder and wire/take apart your xbox to do. You can do all that. ok. I'll get one for you+my 40 gig hard drive i have laying around."
so i go looking around for a place to buy an xbox mod chip, and as being the lazy bastard i am, walk into EB to see if they, by chance, sell them: "ha, dude, you shouldn't go around to retail stores asking for those, they're illegal."
well crap man, it's legal to burn the game as a back up, but you can't use it unless you have a mod chip, which is illegal because it circumvents copy protection. what are you supposed to do?
"go buy another copy of the game for $50" (I know halo is now only $20-30, but for the sake of the argument, most new games are).
Now, im a straight arrow type of guy, i think downloading stuff you don't own and pirating games/movies/software is not at all comendible, but what the hell man, I didn't buy the game, I just paid for the Disc + the Liscence, so i should be able to do what ever i want with it for my private use (except for redistributing it/using multiple copies at once, which I TOTALY would do if i had bought the game). So, if you ask me, this DMCA/Copy protection stuff is a whole bunch of crap that is right now alianating me and i seriously doute I'll ever purchace a consul again unless they change the laws or offer another alternative for the products that they sell.
my friend breaks his Halo Disc, and I'm like: "well, you can't play burned X-Box Discs unless you have a mod chip, which you have to soder and wire/take apart your xbox to do. You can do all that. ok. I'll get one for you+my 40 gig hard drive i have laying around."
so i go looking around for a place to buy an xbox mod chip, and as being the lazy bastard i am, walk into EB to see if they, by chance, sell them: "ha, dude, you shouldn't go around to retail stores asking for those, they're illegal."
well crap man, it's legal to burn the game as a back up, but you can't use it unless you have a mod chip, which is illegal because it circumvents copy protection. what are you supposed to do?
"go buy another copy of the game for $50" (I know halo is now only $20-30, but for the sake of the argument, most new games are).
Now, im a straight arrow type of guy, i think downloading stuff you don't own and pirating games/movies/software is not at all comendible, but what the hell man, I didn't buy the game, I just paid for the Disc + the Liscence, so i should be able to do what ever i want with it for my private use (except for redistributing it/using multiple copies at once, which I TOTALY would do if i had bought the game). So, if you ask me, this DMCA/Copy protection stuff is a whole bunch of crap that is right now alianating me and i seriously doute I'll ever purchace a consul again unless they change the laws or offer another alternative for the products that they sell.