It's a civil case. The judge couldn't do anything. It's the same reason prostitutes can bring people up for failing to pay for "services rendered".
But a prostitutes "services" can be defined how ever she wants.
"He payed me for 30 minutes of my time, the sex was just because I liked him"
These guys clearly came into the court room, on TV, and admitted to participating in questionable acts for illegal purposes.
As far as I know, mod chipping your console is not illegal, but they both said it was to pirate games. Surely there is legal action that can be taken by interested parties for these 2 idiots being so damn stupid.
I don't care to debate the legalities of prostitution, specifically. I merely mentioned it as an easy parallel. While you're correct, most people (and courts) wouldn't exactly see it as that. Personally? I feel that outlawing such simple things is pretty ridiculous, especially when the sole means of enforcement is generally state-funded deception and outright entrapment or customers.
Now, that aside. Modding hardware isn't illegal, though it's not expressively permitted either. It is circumnavigating copyright protection schemes, which is clearly against the ever-so-corrupt DMCA. However, it allows for a lot of fair-use situations, which
are permitted. With the recent rulings on rooting mobile telephones, I think it'd be hard to argue against hardware or software modding. That said, of course pirating games is illegal. The case wasn't to prove whether or not he was pirating games however, it was to prove whether or not the defendant had followed through with the services which had been paid for. Civil cases (like this is parodying) generally don't go fay beyond the immediate situation at hand.
As backwards and corrupt as our legal system often appears, is it any surprise that people take more solace in the commercial-backed safety net of television show judges instead?
Topic: How Stupid can 2 people be? Very. Wii Pirates in The Peoples Court. (Read 7731 times)
