Comment Re:Um...so?? (Score 1) 810
I have a nephew who is 5 years old and is very reckless to say the least. I have a mod chip in my original playstation so that he can play the backed up versions of the games without me having to sit over him every second to make sure he does not kill the games. Should I not be allowed to make legitmate copies of games? After all I am given the right to make copies of the games. I own the original versions of the games I just have backups so that when my nephew decides to switch games and does not put it away correctly then I wont be out the 30 bucks I had originally spent on the game. He had ruined 4 games before I went to this method which made it so I had to buy them again.
It would be a different subject if the companies actually let you return the ruined disks and gave you new ones but that does not happen. Most companies charge you 10 dollars per disk and when you are talking about games like Final Fantacy it is less expensive to just go out and buy a used version of the game.
I can understand where microsoft is coming from in that they don't want people to just steel their games because they want to make a profit but at the same time some of us have legitmate reasons for making our legal copies of the games and should not be punished for it. Come up with a way to figure out if the game in there is original or if it is a copy and then do it based on that don't do it based on if the system (which I bought and paid for) is modified. Any normal person would be pissed at a car company if they made it so your car would stop running if you modified it so why aren't people getting upset with microsoft? Any normal person would be upset if your car blew up while you were driving it and would sue the car company but yet software products crash all the time losing data for users and nothing happens to them.
It would be a different subject if the companies actually let you return the ruined disks and gave you new ones but that does not happen. Most companies charge you 10 dollars per disk and when you are talking about games like Final Fantacy it is less expensive to just go out and buy a used version of the game.
I can understand where microsoft is coming from in that they don't want people to just steel their games because they want to make a profit but at the same time some of us have legitmate reasons for making our legal copies of the games and should not be punished for it. Come up with a way to figure out if the game in there is original or if it is a copy and then do it based on that don't do it based on if the system (which I bought and paid for) is modified. Any normal person would be pissed at a car company if they made it so your car would stop running if you modified it so why aren't people getting upset with microsoft? Any normal person would be upset if your car blew up while you were driving it and would sue the car company but yet software products crash all the time losing data for users and nothing happens to them.
