Well I don't know about being crushed under a capalist heel exactly, but there's little doubt that they got more than they deserved under the guise of 'see how hard we we can hit piraters now? BEWARE!'.

However, I have a funny feeling that their sentences wouldn't have been nearly as servere should the old greed monster not have reared his ugly head. Ripping off welfare while you're engaging in grey (lets face it, out right illegal) activities is just moronic. I wonder if it was the second Bentley that tipped the cops off.

Now there something to do with soap that you're supposed to warn people going to jail about...hmm can't think of it. N'mind.

Well I suppose they got their just desserts then. Piracy for profit is very wrong. Modding for you own personal use though I feel gets mixed in with this more serious hurt to the industry.

I think it's about time ELSPA begins to be more careful in how they differentiate between the fan in the street who mods his machine to play games denied him or his region out of passion for games, and the real bad pirates who do it just for the mo money.

In respect to modding I think ELSPA need to be careful, because if a case of a modder ends up in court it could get pretty stupid. Why I say this is because when you buy a car etc it's yours and you can modify it to a certain point, when you buy a console however you are told the opposite. Why should you be able to do one and not the other when both are yours (especially when using long dead games that nobody plays anymore on your Xbox)?

The modder in question got a criminal record, but didn't get any jail time. He was given something like 140 hours community service. In my mind, he was doing the same thing as the couple selling pirated games as he wasn't just modding, he was selling modded xboxes with 60 games already installed on the hard drive. He was selling these openly through his own website at an inflated price that shows he was charging extra for the games.

I've got nothing against modding - I wouldn't be able to use Xbox MediaCentre without it. I'm not a big fan of profit from piracy, be it selling copied games on DVDs or hard drives with games already installed.