American Xbox modders are to be charged according to the US Department of Justice.The modders worked in Pandoras Cube, a video game distributor with three stores in Springfield, Virginia; College Park, Maryland; and Baltimore, Maryland.
The idea behind the modded Xboxes, named Super Xboxes was to cut out the integrated copyright protection system which allowed customers to avoid paying the full price on an authentic Xbox disk.
Users of the Super Xbox could copy video games from an authentic Xbox disk, save the contents onto the Super-Xbox storage and play it directly from the harddrive.
Additionally, Pandoras Cube illegally copied large quantities of Xbox video games onto the hard drives of the Super Xboxes and sold the copied games at very substantial discounts to customers.
The four face five years in prison under the DCMA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act ), a fine of $250,000, and Arestitution to the victims.
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