Two arrested during modded Xbox raids in Washington area

DamnedIfIknow used our news submit to tell us that during a raid by
federal authorities in the Washington D.C. area of three video game
stores, two people were arrested for allegedly selling modified game
consoles. The video game consoles had been modded in a way that allowed them to
play pirated video games. The charges filed against the video game store
employees are conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and conspiracy to
traffic in a device that circumvents technological protection measures.  

Pandora"s Cube, Wright said, sold $500 "Super Xbox" consoles, modified versions of Microsoft Corp."s Xbox video game console, that had been modified to hold larger hard drives and play pirated games. The modified consoles, some holding 15 or more games already copied to the hard drive, were on open display in the stores."They were burning games onto the hard drive and equipping the hard drive with copying software so that the average consumer could just go ahead and copy the software themselves," she said.

Whoa that's just a little brazen wouldn't you say? The
Entertainment Software Association stated that the raids on the three Pandora's Cube stores in
Maryland and Virginia were a joint effort of the U.S. Department of Justice's
computer crimes unit, the U.S. Attorney's Office for Maryland and the Bureau of
Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Source: Yahoo!