Comment Re:They force you to lease software (Score 1) 1016
No other obvious purpose? How about wanting to play a (paid for) foreign version of a game? Or what if you really do back up your (paid for) game and want to play the copy while keeping the original protected (Probably a good idea for anyone who has cats or toddlers in the house...). Or, (and this one I have to admit is kind of lame), I had a game a long time ago that somehow I managed to lose. It was legitimately purchased for me, and after a few moves, I just can't find it. Now, it turns out to be a pretty rare/hard to find game, and if I want to purchase another copy, I have to pay over 100$ on Ebay or the like. You could say it's my own fault for losing it, and I'd have to admit you had a point. But, if I were to download and burn a copy and mod my system to play it, I think you'd have to admit that I wasn't stealing or otherwise being immoral by doing so.
It's too bad that there are people who will also pirate games, which I still believe is wrong. But the fact remains that there are plenty of (at least ethically) legitimate purposes for a modded console, and I don't think that other people's bad behavior should prevent me from using my console for those purposes. The automatic assumption of guilt seems to be what really bothers us here.
It's too bad that there are people who will also pirate games, which I still believe is wrong. But the fact remains that there are plenty of (at least ethically) legitimate purposes for a modded console, and I don't think that other people's bad behavior should prevent me from using my console for those purposes. The automatic assumption of guilt seems to be what really bothers us here.