sorry didnt get that about MPs why do they muck up?
The problem is to do with intellectual property. In the olden days, when you buy a book you buy a book. It's your book. You can't copy the book, photocopying it is banned because it's a new hard copy of the book.
The problem is, if you get a picture off a web site that is copyrighted, print it off and with superhuman ability recreate it exactlky in ms paint without using the original file then you have made an identical copy. But it has nothing to do with the original copy. You may not have even seen the original in your life nad by chance copied it.
So the US digital millenium copyright act was rushed in in hope to solve the problems. However, it has created an interesting scenario:
- You buy an XBOX, Normally, it's yours. Youc an smah it up, rip it apart, do whatever you want with it.
- However with DMCA you can't. You can be sent to jail for open up your xbox, as you could be suspected to be bypassing the copy protection. It is illegal to bypas the copy protection, even if you don't run pirated games!
- Australia deemed that xbox mod chips has legal uses and now microsoft is threatening to withdraw the xbox from australia because of that!
It's a tricky subject and I'm no expert so I could have ritten a load of rubbisj for all I know. See
http://www.hackingthexbox.com
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