Game Console hacker arrested, faces up to ten years in jail

**Darth Sushi** · 08-05-2009, 03:30 AM

Game Console hacker arrested, faces up to ten years in jail
by Joseph L. Flatley, posted Aug 4th 2009 at 8:32PM

" Just when you thought it was safe to get out your soldering irons, Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants you to know that its agents are still out there, on the lookout for for even more mod chip-wielding nogoodniks and their non-DMCA compliant consoles. According to the AP, a 27-year-old CSU student named Matthew Crippen was recently arrested for "modifying Xbox, PlayStation and Wii consoles in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act" and released Monday on $5,000 bond. The dime was dropped on this perp by the Entertainment Software Association, and the raid conducted by Customs agents sometime in May. He will be arraigned on August 10th, and if convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison. Let this be a lesson to you: while the ICE may have its hands full with human slavery, drug trafficking, transnational gangs, and stolen artifacts, there is always time to make an example out of a man that knows his way around the inside of a PS3. "

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/04/c...years-in-jail/

**Rart** · 08-09-2009, 07:17 PM

Can you really get in trouble for doing stuff to your own console? You bought it with your own money, shouldn't you be able to do anything you want with it? Unless he actually found some way of distributing or releasing what he did...

**tesco** · 08-09-2009, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by Rart

Can you really get in trouble for doing stuff to your own console? You bought it with your own money, shouldn't you be able to do anything you want with it? Unless he actually found some way of distributing or releasing what he did...

He was making a business out of modding other people's consoles.

**KushBlow** · 08-10-2009, 12:41 AM

Up to 10 years is harsh. Even if it's for modding consoles.

Let us/me know how his hearing goes if possible OP!

**kell0w** · 08-10-2009, 12:54 AM

yeah i just heard about this. he was also advertising his services all over

**Evju** · 08-10-2009, 02:51 AM

Only in America.

**stoi** · 08-12-2009, 04:08 AM

there is always time to make an example out of a man that knows his way around the inside of a PS3

he must have been bloody good, as no one else knows how to mod a ps3 yet.

yes, i know its just a little thing, but at least get their facts right ffs.