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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MJEggertson" data-source="post: 1010096" data-attributes="member: 845">It's really not an issue of licensing or anything like that. It's basically plain and simple copyright infringment. You can't modify their software, just as much as you can't (legally) modify the latest song, movie, or work of art at the museum without permission from the copyright holder. These various exploits all work on one way or another to modify a program either on disk or in memory, programs that are protected under digital copyrights. Microsoft owns the copyright to the software code and binaries on the xBox, just as Morrus does for the code that runs ENWorld. Either can do what they want with it. You can own an xBox, but Microsoft still has copyrights on some of the media inside that device.The problem people have with digital copyrights, is they figure since they have a copy of it, it is their right to do anything with it. But that's not the way it works most of the time. Digital media works by requiring distribution of exact copies. Buying virtually any digital product does not allow you to modify it, open source being the exception. The laws are there to prevent people from copying, distributing, modifying, etc the product without the copyright holder's consent.Do you really think anyone in their right mind would try to base a corporation off digital media if there weren't these laws?The DMCA applies because there is software that is being modified. Bootstrappers, cryptographic software, etc. That software is there to ensure that only licensed Micrsoft products (that is, xBox games, and perhaps some DVD/CD media) run on the system. There is no way you can run Linux on the system without modifying/defeating some of the existing software, hence violating copyrights.</blockquote>

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