better shut down your modchip stores :-\

[Brunt]

>> From reuters.com:



LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Virginia man has been sentenced to five months in prison and fined $28,500 for selling imported chips that illegally modify Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video game console.

David Rocci, of Blacksburg, Virginia, was sentenced late last week in federal court in Virginia after pleading guilty in December to one count of conspiracy to violate copyright laws under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization that has opposed the DMCA as being overly restrictive on free speech and the fair-use rights of consumers, said Rocci was one of the first people to be sent to prison for violating the DMCA.

He was charged with importing and selling about 450 Enigmah "mod" chips, after-market processors designed to be attached to the Xbox's motherboard and circumvent its security measures.

The U.S. Justice Department seized Rocci's Web site, isonews.com (http:/www.isonews.com) after his plea agreement for violating provisions of the DMCA.







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