What’s interesting in this story on being arrested for modding an XBox isn’t so much that people were arrested for selling modded XBoxs. No. It’s that they were charged with the felony of conspiring to circumvent copy protection. Really.

Apparently we don’t have anything better to do in the US than throw people in a federal prison for conspiring to circumvent copyright. I mean.. seriously.. there are people out there commiting hanous crimes. Can’t we just devote, as a society, a little more effort on that and a little less effort on bloody copyright?

And I dislike it when people infringe on the stuff I write, sure. But I don’t care that much even if I loose money. There’s just no call for that level of screwing people over it.

We’re probably talking about the large business equivelent of that 5 bucks I might loose in ad revenue because someone ursurped my spot in google with my content. It’s not even a real five bucks, in this parallel, because I might have never earned it anyway.