Federal agents go after gaming pirates

[schi0249]

US federal agents raid mod chip importers. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070801/ap_on_hi_te/customs_gaming_raids

Man are they getting serious about cracking down. I understand going after the people selling counterfeit games, but mod chip importers/installers. I wish the game industry would stop regionalizing systems. Some people do mod consoles just in order to play imports.

 

[Zziggy00]

I just purchased a broken Xbox, the hard drive is shot. And low and behold today when I go to try and find a place to buy a modchip, it's the same day this raid takes place and the 2 shops where I normally buy from are closed for business. On the sites I've been to where people are posting their views, no one has mentioned this... It makes it nice and easy to unlock / lock a hard drive for an Xbox system that needs repair, now I'm just left angry and looking for alternative methods.