Community service for chipping!!!

[mattydread]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4650225.stm

I thought chipping was perfectly legit, so i assume he has got done for piracy???

 

[mmicrosysm]

It’s legal as long as you do not sell the system or the chip pre loaded with the hacked code and defiantly don’t do this:

The man had been selling modified Xbox consoles which he fitted with a big hard drive containing 80 games.

 

[Rookio]

The way i understood the article, it is actually ilegal to fit modchips in the UK. that could just be the news reporting BS as usual though.

 

[mitpat]

if it was illegal teamx would be bust...

... then again its illegal to download music off p2p networks