A 27-year-old student at CSU Fullerton modded his XBox, PlayStation and Wii consoles. And then got caught. The bad news? If convicted, he could face ten years in prison.
What else has been done to get slapped with ten years?
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Sigh. Our country is fucked up. Ten years for modding a video game system when the banks willfully destroyed our economy and got rewarded with billions in free* money for it.
*Free being straight from the taxpayers pockets.
Banks and the Fed own this country. It’s a big club and we sure as hell ain’t in it.
What…. the….. hell?
Modding 3 consoles is as bad as 2000 child porn images?
WHO THE FLIPPING FUCK BALANCED THAT ONE OUT?
He hasn’t been sentenced yet, but he could be up to 10 years. Doesn’t mean he’s going to actually get 10 years, just that he could. It would be rather disproportionate for him to get 10 years, but they might want to make an example out of him. August 10th is his arraignment date. In the UK unless the guy was modding consoles for sale and probably then only for mass market sale, there’s no way he’d have gotten prosecuted to this degree. Another only in America event.
Edited. Thanks Sam, jumped too quickly on that one.
American’s suck, and that’s me speaking as a born and raised American. To comment on what Sam said, if he was selling these consoles, that would make sense but if it’s his own property, why the hell is he being prosecuted so badly? Granted, he’s probably pirating games, but he’s not being prosecuted for pirating games. He’s being prosecuted for modifying his game consoles. I call foul play and if this guy gets sentenced for 10 years, I will have lost faith in our justice system. America the Free…sure.