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F.B.I. Raid Stores Selling Modded Xboxes - 12.12.04

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XBoxFrom Reuters:

Pandora's Cube, [Chunnie Wright, anti-piracy counsel to the ESA] said, sold $500 "Super Xbox" consoles, modified versions of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video game console, that had been modified to hold larger hard drives and play pirated games.

The modified consoles, some holding 15 or more games already copied to the hard drive, were on open display in the stores.

"They were burning games onto the hard drive and equipping the hard drive with copying software so that the average consumer could just go ahead and copy the software themselves," she said.

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