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Are they?
YES
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39.29% (11 votes)
NO
39.29% (11 votes)
39.29% (11 votes)
Kinda
21.43% (6 votes)
21.43% (6 votes)
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#21. Posted:
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In the United States, it is illegal to circumvent copy protection measures under the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act):
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"... no person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."
Digital Millennium Copyright Act - 17 U.S.C Sec. 1201(a)(1)
(Section 1201(a)(3) goes into more detail as to what they mean)
JTagging, DVD firmware hacking or jailbreaking a console circumvents copy protection so, yes, technically it is illegal. Although few people have been to court over this, and those who have were mostly modding lots of consoles and providing copied games with the consoles (that's just asking for trouble).
Realistically, no one will go after a person doing this to his own console or a few friends. It's just not worth the time and effort.
Playing copied games on Xbox Live is a breach of their Terms of Service which you agreed to when you signed up, but again, they won't come after you. They just ban your console for breaking the agreement.
Similar laws exist in the EU (some countries like Italy and Spain have a "different interpretation" of that law and say that what someone does with a console they purchased is up to them).
News articles:
Student Arrested for Jailbreaking Games Consoles - Wired.com
Xbox chipper gets prison and fine - Pinsent Mansons LLP
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"... no person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."
Digital Millennium Copyright Act - 17 U.S.C Sec. 1201(a)(1)
(Section 1201(a)(3) goes into more detail as to what they mean)
JTagging, DVD firmware hacking or jailbreaking a console circumvents copy protection so, yes, technically it is illegal. Although few people have been to court over this, and those who have were mostly modding lots of consoles and providing copied games with the consoles (that's just asking for trouble).
Realistically, no one will go after a person doing this to his own console or a few friends. It's just not worth the time and effort.
Playing copied games on Xbox Live is a breach of their Terms of Service which you agreed to when you signed up, but again, they won't come after you. They just ban your console for breaking the agreement.
Similar laws exist in the EU (some countries like Italy and Spain have a "different interpretation" of that law and say that what someone does with a console they purchased is up to them).
News articles:
Student Arrested for Jailbreaking Games Consoles - Wired.com
Xbox chipper gets prison and fine - Pinsent Mansons LLP
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both side are greatly suported
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To MS yea, but to the government they arent...
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k ttg u can close theeres anofe proof
and its ok long as u dont put in chip or copy games=)
THANK you guys i love everyone who cometted!
and its ok long as u dont put in chip or copy games=)
THANK you guys i love everyone who cometted!
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i relly dont know but my guess is no
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they aren't (governmental illegal) they simply break MICROSOFTS code of conduct
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RawrrDino wrote Jtags aren't illegal, It just kicks you off of XBL... Thats where KV's come into place.
u r dumb, u r really dumb, fo real
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This is been posted before but no jtags arent illegil and kv are for distibuting
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JTAGS aren't illegal.
They just break the ToS so that is why their banned.
They just break the ToS so that is why their banned.
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They arnt illegal, they just bend the rules technically.
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