"Mod Chip" Trafficker Gets Prison Time Under Digital Copyright Act
I'd link this but I can't find web item. I got this from Digital Media Wire email newsletter which I can recommend for DRM, video games and cable television news.
"Mod Chip" Trafficker Gets Prison Time Under Digital Copyright ActWashington -- A federal court last week handed down a ten-month prison
sentence to a trafficker of "mod chips," which bypass access control
systems of video game consoles so they can play pirated games. Last
Friday, in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District Court of
Virginia, Judge James C. Cacheris sentenced David M. Rocci to ten months
plus a $28,500 fine for his criminal conviction under the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act; Rocci had plead guilty to the charges last
December. [...]
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is the DOJ press release...