Immigration goes after modchippers

["'Richard M. Smith'" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Now that illegal immigration has been stopped, ICE is going after game
console modchippers.  I'm surprised that Ms. Myers of ICE didn't mention
that modchippers help finance terrorism and modchips can be used in game
machines to run games that are used in terrorism training.

 

Richard

 

Federal Agents Go After Gaming Pirates

By DAN CATERINICCHIA, AP Business Writer

(AP) -- Federal customs agents Wednesday raided more than 30 businesses and
homes, looking for devices that let pirated video games play on Sony's
PlayStation 2, Microsoft's Xbox and Xbox 360, and Nintendo's Wii. 

 

The alleged sale and distribution of illegal modification chips and
copyright circumvention devices for the popular consoles and others included
32 search warrants in 16 states, said the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement. 
http://www.myaffiliateprogram.com/u/globalsp/se.asp?e=83&id=1400

ICE declined to release the names of those targeted or any other details. 

The illegal chips and other devices used on gaming consoles violate the
<http://www.physorg.com/news105194834.html> Digital Millennium Copyright Act
of 1998. Sales of counterfeit or illegally obtained games costs the industry
about $3 billion a year globally, not including Internet piracy, estimates
the Entertainment Software Association trade group. 

"Illicit devices like the ones targeted today are created with one purpose
in mind, subverting copyright protections," Julie L. Myers, assistant
secretary of Homeland Security for ICE, said in a release. "These crimes
cost legitimate  <http://www.physorg.com/news105194834.html> businesses
billions of dollars annually and facilitate multiple other layers of
criminality, such as smuggling, software piracy and money laundering."

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