Comments on: MrModchips Wins Appeal in 1M GBP UK Modchip Case

By: The Ori

The Ori — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:19:08 +0000

Yeah, I don’t see why we have region coding. If they got rid of that, people would buy games and movies from all over the globe. Modchips help eliminate region restrictions, which allows the use of other region discs.

Still, more than 60% of people that do have modchips, will DOWNLOAD movies and games from other regions, they don’t buy them. This has been tracked with bittorrent sites, and why some were restricted from USA users.

In any case, I know why people use modchips, and why people ask me to help them, or install one. It’s not to stream, or run linux, it is so they can use emulators, RENT games, and put them on the HDD or copy it, plain and simple. Not one person has EVER asked me to mod, or help mod their console for any other reason except to pirate.

By: Bourkie

Bourkie — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:27:55 +0000

If they stopped using region codes then they could easily make mods illegal. What does that tell us?

It tells us:

1. They make more money out of region coding games and videos than they do out of curbing piracy; and
2. They prefer to rip off the paying customers to cover the losses due to piracy, rather than cracking down on piracy as they ‘claim’ to be serious about!

Sony told a ‘half-truth’ about making the PS3 region-free; however they still region coded the console itself for both games and movies (both Blu-ray Disc and DVD). Only their ‘first-party’ games are region-free.

Well done Justice Jacob – he recognized region coding for what is is – extortion through market segmentation.

You wouldn’t steal a car.
You wouldn’t steal a handbag.
You wouldn’t steal a television.

Region coding is stealing from consumers!

If I ran a store with a sign out the front saying ‘DVDs for sale, white people $40, Japanese people $50, black people $20′ I would rightly be charged with racism…

How is region coding any different?

By: Hampster46

Hampster46 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:57:28 +0000

True. If I want to modify my PS3 or 360 to toast bread, who are the corporations to say I can’t?!! Try and stop me!!
I hope Mr Modchips comes back pronto! I need a Wii modchip from a reliable source!!

Playing copied games is the least of the world’s worries. Many copied games I have played are dross, and I wouldn’t have bought them anyway!

By: caster troy

caster troy — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:02:21 +0000

i am glad that the silly case has finally come to an end ,i for one am looking forward to the return of mr mod chip ,i have been a customer for some time now and if its was not for him selling parts and mod chips my psp would still be sat at home usable.

what the makers of consoles seem to forget is that once an individual has bought a console its then no longer the property of the console maker and as such the individuals are free to do what ever they like with/to them and this includes installing mod chips.

By: Midwinter

Midwinter — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:00:30 +0000

This is very good news. It is crazy that we buy hardware and then are told we can’t do anything with it other than what we’re told by a corporation. Imagine the same thing happening if you bought a car.
Piracy would disappear overnight if the companies released games at a modest price. If Sony, MS or Nintendo sold their games for a 10th of the price they’d still make huge profits. Excessive greed is their motivation. Viva Mr Modchip. I’ve been a customer of his before and he has excellent service.

By: Zub

Zub — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:59:47 +0000

Hoorah for the little guy! XD

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:59:35 +0000

I honestly disagree with your statement HIGHLY.
I have a modchip in my original xbox, why?
Not at all for illegal game copies, not a single one.
Simply for XBMC (much more than just streaming… internet browsing, recipes, and weather), Custom Halo Maps, and so I can watch DVD’s without the dongle.

I have friends who also have it for that reason, why?
We have every xbox game we played, so we didn’t need to copy/pirate games.
However, I’m not going to lie, if we didn’t have all of the games we wanted to play we would have pirated games.

As for my Xbox 360, I will not mod it until Homebrew comes out, I’m looking forward to what they can push this system too.
Same goes with my PSP, I never modded it until I saw IRshell…

Just get your points straight, not everyone is in it for the pirated game.
Only thing I have pirated something for is the PC.

By: steve anderson

steve anderson — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:32:40 +0000

you get a modchip to play cheap games never heard so much garbage in my life

By: steve anderson

steve anderson — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:31:22 +0000

modchips allow ypou to play car boot sale games he just be jailed load of bollocks

By: Powerslave

Powerslave — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:36:40 +0000

If you have a PC, why do you need to run HomeBrew on a game console? People use modchips for the most popular reason, and that is for backups, aka Piracy.

Back in the Commodore days, you had to EDIT the game code to remove the error checking routines, resave to disc, so you could play the copy, so sure, modchips did not start it; however, today? They promote it more now, that they have been invented.

I can’t think of one person who has a MODCHIP just to play their own backups, stream media, or run “homebrew”; all without ONE illegal copy of a game? It’s just an avenue for illegal activities, always has been since the PS1 modchips were made.

The modchip should not be ILLEGAL though. If we buy the hardware, and I don’t care what a license says, we should own it, and be able to do with it whatever we please. The way we live today, we own nothing, really, we don’t. Owe someone money (especially a government), they can take your ownership away…