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Posted on Monday, December 5, 2011 by | Comments 3 Comments


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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is making a submission to the US Copyright Office, under the exemptions for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, to legally allow you to mod your game consoles. A previous EFF submission resulted in it being totally legal to jailbreak your iPhone, and so there is reason to believe that their attempt to allow you to alter your consoles stands a good chance of success. Even if the measure works out, however, it would still be illegal to play pirated games on your modded systems. DMCA exemption submissions will be considered in the spring of 2012, so hold in your creative urges until then.

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psycros | December 5th, 2011 at 5:01 PM Permalink to this Comment

Hope they win. You should be able to do anything you want with something you own, so long as it doesn’t threaten national security or endanger the public, your kids, you pets, etc.

Jason Pitruzzello | December 5th, 2011 at 5:54 PM Permalink to this Comment

Well, we’ll see how it goes. Modifying hardware and wanting to access online content from an online service dedicated to that console isn’t quite the same thing as jailbreaking an iPhone so you can load non-Apple apps.

I suspect that it can be made LEGAL to modify your console, but that no power in the world will force the makers to let you onto their online service for the console once you do it. So, the total impact of such a move would be smaller than we might expect.

But I’m not a console jockey, so what do I know?

Sean | December 5th, 2011 at 10:16 PM Permalink to this Comment

Judging from the picture, I am guessing it may be targetted at some of the older consoles. Picture is of a N64, so maybe pre-online generations?

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