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The U.S. Government has nothing better to do than arrest college kids for modding their own game consoles. A 27-year-old CSU-Fullerton student was arrested after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency raided his home, then was charged with two counts of violating the Digital Millenium Copyright Act for modding his video game systems.

Matt Crippen was released on $5,000 bond, but is facing 10 years in prison if found guilty. He modded his Xbox 360, PlayStation, and Nintendo Wii to play pirated games. You have to feel for this guy. I mean think about being arrested for messing around with the video game system you bought. Why can’t the government go find terrorists or better yet, find a way to end this recession and leave the college kids alone. This is just annoying. On the one hand, it is understandable from the piracy standpoint but jeez, 10 years for modding a video game system. Rapists and killers get less time sometimes. This is crazy.

(Via Associated Press)



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6 Comments

The AP article doesn’t say he just modded “his” consoles: my guess is that he runs a console modding business.

So what if he does? If I buy it, it’s my property. If I want to change the way it works, that’s my fundamental right as an American. You can’t get much more fundamental than the right to property.

Hey Reddits…at least he’s on bail.. he better escape back to his home country

Is it just me, or does this dude look like he’s about 70?

This is horrible. Also if he “owns the games” in question and made digital copies for his own entertainment whould that not be legal?

A little crazy..

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