Pandora’s Cube owner jailed
p2p news / p2pnet:- Bill and the Boyz have supposedly solved a problem that’s been vexing them for quite a while: How stop people from modding Microsoft game consoles?
Chris Satchell from the company’s Xbox Advanced Technology Group has reportedly claimed the Xbox 360 has, “levels of security in this box that the hacker community has never seen before. We’ve taken security to the hardware level and built it in from the ground up.”
OK. That takes care of that. But meanwhile, Biren Amin, owner of the Pandora’s Cube chain, has been sentenced to five months in jail and fined $247,237, says CNET News.
He and Hitesh Patel, Mrugesh Amin and Herbie Walker were said by the US Department of Justice to have sold the Super Xbox, specifically designed to “defeat the Xbox’s integrated copyright protection system and to permit customers to avoid purchasing, and paying the retail price for, authentic Xbox game discs”.
The other three had already been sentenced, Patel to four months inside, four months under house arrest and two years of probation; Amin to six months of home confinement, 24 months of probation and 150 hours of community service another store manager; and, Walker to six months of home confinement, 24 months of probation and 100 hours of community service, says the story.
Amin is also subject to five months of home confinement and three years of supervised release, as well as 80 hours of community service.
As well as the $500 Super Xboxes, “prehacked and loaded with illegal software,” Pandora’s Cube also sold imported games, anime and hentai DVDs, adds CNET.
The hacker-proof Xbox 360 is due to go on the shelves in the US in November, and in Europe and Japan, in December.
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See:-
vexing them – Microsoft ‘hacker-proof’ Xbox, September 9, 2005
CNET News – Another Maryland game pirate sunk, September 15, 2005
defeat the Xbox – Xbox modders to be charged, June 7, 2005
September 18th, 2005 at 1:22 pm
Hacker proof? Hahaha