October 25, 2007UK: “Mr. Modchips” Gets Convicted
Posted by The Ori
A ‘businessman’ who traded under the name Mr Modchips has become only the second person in the UK to be convicted for distributing and selling chipped consoles.
39 year-old Higgs was found guilty of 26 offences: three counts of advertising (wow, would you look at that, just for ADVERTISING them), supplying and selling modification chips designed to enable people to play illegally copied games on their consoles; 12 counts of possessing 19 chipped game consoles, and another 11 counts of possessing Executor modchips for Microsoft consoles, as well as Viper GC chips for Nintendo systems. He was cleared of a further four count; possessing chipped consoles.
Ok, so that last line, the fourth count being dropped, doesn’t make all that much sense, does it? You are allowed, seemingly, to posses the technology, (for your private use?), but you can’t be involved in making a profit with the technology.
The jury at his trial voted unanimously against Higgs, whose lawyers requested leave to appeal, which was granted by the Judge. A date for the appeal hearing has yet to be set.
So, even the JURY found him guilty. That would mean, apparently, he didn’t have any jury members that had Modded consoles, you now, to defend your god given right to mod consoles? I guess they forgot that part. He may get somewhere with the appeals court though.
I’ve used his store before… Good luck Mr MC!
Wow, that sucks.. seems like there’s a lot of recent busts in the news.
This is sad news indeed.
I have heard of several modchips stores having closed up this year.
If this keeps up it will be very difficult to get some hardware mods in the future.
Might be a good idea to stock up on some modchips and hardware while we still can.
well you know the tiny loophole about possessing them he can say the charge for the chips is the shipping and handling then technically he is not making a profit. then all that he was charged for should be able to be dropped as being used for his own.
Lots of mods stores getting pulled. Hopefully there are too many to deal with so we wont be left in the cold…. Good Luck man
Good!
I hope it gets sent down for a long time, the criminal!
I put a lot of business his way using my own shop.
He did me over in a £1200 deal and when i went to claim through a small claims court he banned me from the site.
He doesnt accept refunds etc. He deserves what he gets the scum bag!