“Piracy, counterfeiting and other intellectual property rights violations not only cost U.S. businesses jobs and billions of dollars a year in lost revenue, they can also pose significant health and safety risks to consumers,”
You can probably do whatever you want to your hardware. They're trying to stop businesses forming around piracy. Like the article said, there's a lot of money in pretending bits can't be copied.
it's not in this article, but he wasn't arrested for modding his own hardware. he was running a home business where he was essentially selling modded hardware.
Right. The real issue is that some consoles cannot play these downloaded games without mod chips, which the guy imported and resold. The DMCA makes it illegal to "disseminate" devices that circumvent copy-protection, which gets Customs involved.
“Piracy, counterfeiting and other intellectual property rights violations not only cost U.S. businesses jobs and billions of dollars a year in lost revenue, they can also pose significant health and safety risks to consumers,”