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09-14-2009, 11:37 PM
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| | | Console Soft Modding
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? WA
I've been doing some research into the legality of soft modding consoles and I've been getting mixed responses. For those that do not know what soft modding is exactly, its where a person would update the firmware of a console to allow them to play backup games that they already purchased. For example, the Wii you just have to load a program onto a SD card and install something to make this happen. My question is doing this legal? The thing that makes me think its probably not is I believe that the DMCA has something about anything that can bypass copyright protection is illegal.
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09-14-2009, 11:56 PM
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I'm not all that computer savvy so please explain. Is this simply taking the software in place and altering it?
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09-15-2009, 12:23 AM
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| | | Sorry about they tech talk, I have that problem where forget people dont live in front of a pc like me.
Anyways, Firmware is basically the program on a device like a dvd player that tells it how to operate. Lets take the Wii for example, It has dvd player that's firmware tells it only to play dvd's with Nintendo's code on it. In soft modding your basically changing its firmware so that it will play anything, code or no code. |
09-15-2009, 07:56 AM
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| | | It is against the law to circumvent any protections that exist within the firmware.
Let's pretend for a moment that it's not actually illegal, it is still against the terms you agreed to by using the Wii, and therefore there could potentially be a civil claim against you for violating a contract.
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09-15-2009, 07:58 AM
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| | | Also, there could be a violation of copyright if the 'mod' included the copyright software. |
09-15-2009, 08:13 AM
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| | Thats what I thought, thank you everyone for your quick answers  | |
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