At 03:06 PM 6/12/2003 +0000, you wrote: >I just recently reimaged a dead tivo for a friend of mine and was able to >bump him up from a 20gig to an 80gig drive, and it was legal because he >"owned" the tivo. There are tons of sites about tivo hacking and I have >seen nothing illegal so far regarding tivo hacks. (unless you start >getting into the directv/tivo boxes, but the illegal stuff is on the >directv side of things) > >Imagine if other stuff was sold like this and you bought a license for a >hamburger and it was illegal to remove the tomato from your burger because >that was be reverse engineering the burger as per the EULA on the >wrapper... scary huh!
I don't think it is illegal to modify the X-Box per se, but modifying or in any way tampering with any mechanism that protects copyrighted content (i.e., the software running on the machine) would violate the DMCA. Anyone, please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting http://www.puryear-it.com
