XBox crack man does time in prison
Reuters | at | by Mike
A Virginia man has been sentenced to five months in prison and fined $28,500 for selling imported chips that illegally modify Microsoft's Xbox video game console. David Rocci, of Blacksburg, Virginia, was sentenced late last week in federal court in Virginia after pleading guilty in December to one count of conspiracy to violate copyright laws under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. He was charged with importing and selling about 450 Enigmah "mod" chips, after-market processors designed to be attached to the Xbox's motherboard and circumvent its security measures. Rocci had faced a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of $500,000.