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"Mr Mod Chips" has had his chips
A BLOKE who dubbed himself "Mr Mod Chips", after he made a million flogging video game chips from his bedroom, faces jail after a landmark case,
Neil Higgs, 38, sold chips that allowed pirated games to play on popular consoles like Microsoft’s Xbox.
When Inspector Knacker of the Yard swooped on his parent's Bristol house, he found 3,700 illegal chips, imported from Hong Kong which Higgs was selling online.
Also found were 19 Xbox consoles which had already been modified.
Higgs denied he had done anything wrong, but according to the Current Bun, Bristol Crown Court found Higgs guilty of 26 copyright offences.
If he does go down for the offences then he will be the first modder sent to jail for distributing pirate chips.
Trading Standards officers told assorted hacks at the court that the conviction could lead to a crackdown on similar internet criminals. µ
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I back-up everything i purchase from dvd to xbox games and i do NOT sell or give the copys away for free as my kids use the media disk in their consoles and dvd players.! Over the years a good few have been damaged or broken so backing up my media is legal.

I bought and paid for the executer & zaptor combo which cost £34 + £5 delivery and this was on October 15th and still i havent had and goods delivered which is infuriating !!! I have contacted him and keeps saying they are out of stock. I asked for a refund and was told i cant ? His rules are if the goods cannot be supplied in 28 days then a refund is issued ! My goods are over 50 days late. I kept asking and i was banned from online help and cant contact him now by any means so im stuck.:( Any ideas how to get my goods or contact him for a refund ???

The site conveiniently shut down for server upgrade and maintenance LOL what a waster i hope he is jailed to make a stand against plp who abuse copyright :(

Lynn.x
These chips by the way also allow "legitimate" Xbox owners to replace their "legitimate" internal dvd drives when they pack up (which by the way you cannot do without these chips and/or the correct software), Microsoft has seen to this!

So I purchase a "legal" xbox 360, my drive packs up, I purchase another off Ebay etc, oh oh, guess what I can't use it coz each drive is hardwired to your particular console, you end up with a dud console, thanks Microsoft! And they accuse "us" of being the thieves, please!
This guy deserves all he gets. Not because he sells this stuff but because he started posting horrid stuff about my mate. He bought stuff from him, which would never work. When my mate contacted him, he told him to f&@k off and then started posting disgusting lude comments about him and posting his address all over the web. Glad he got caught. Nasty sod!
While I think the case is silly, I think people are confused. The reason why this guy is guilty of copyright violation is not because of what his customers may or maynot do with the mod chips. The reason is because most if not all mod chips use a modified Microsoft ROM. The ROM is of course copyrighted by Microsoft and for someone to produce mod chips containing this ROM they are violationg Microsoft's copyright.
Are the laws in Britian such that your lawyers are incapable of putting up a defense? It is not illegal to sell mod chips as long as they aren't being sold for the specific purpose of violating protected content. That's just like the Betamax vs. VHS vs. HBO, etc. In America we don't outlaw devices if they have a purpose that isn't explicitly for illegal purposes.

The man needs to get a new lawyer.
He should have migrated here like I did, its perfectly legal to chip any console.

he had the money!
Although it's long been clear that the primary role of the police is to protect business interests and not, as many people mistakenly think, the citizenry of the country, it's interesting to see that Trading Standards are taking this stance as well.
Actually the hack organize has applied their patent and this poor guy was sued by the hacks. What a joke!
Shouldnt this be a breach of a licence agreement, or copyright rather than a criminal case?
I'd hope this would be impossible to do in the US. I mean, selling a product that enables someone to use an item whose copyright has already been infringed (a game already copied and burned, the infringement has already been committed) seems utterly wrong. The person selling the chips didn't infringe any copyrights, he merely sold an item that allows someone to use an already-pirated copyrighted material.
Some in China, one or two in America. Something about the one that happened in America really puts a hole in the idea that mod chips are mostly for homebrew and playing out of region games. The guy who was arrested had clear tons of pirated game that he was selling with the mod chips.