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Pandora's Cube Pirate Sentenced to Jail Time
>> From the pressrelease on businesswire.com:
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WASHINGTON--July 27, 2005--The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) today applauded the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland for handing down a sentence including prison time for Hitesh Patel, an employee of Pandora's Cube, a major retailer of pirated game software and modified game consoles in the Washington, DC area. Judge Peter J. Messitte ordered Patel to serve eight months for his crime, four months in jail and four months of home detention, in addition to 2 years of supervised release.
Patel, 31, of College Park, Maryland, pled guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit felony copyright infringement and to violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Patel managed one of the Pandora's Cube locations and served as technician for all three stores. He assembled and modified Microsoft Xbox video game consoles, turning them into what Pandora's Cube called "Super Xboxes." These "Super Xboxes" defeated the Xbox's copyright protection system and permitted the user to avoid purchasing and paying for legitimate video games.
Enacted in 1998, the DMCA prohibits the manufacture and distribution of products or services that circumvent technological protection measures designed to prevent unauthorized access to and copying of copyrighted materials.
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The ESA pressrelease fails to mention that these "Super Xboxes" were not just modified, but were also 'preloaded' with 15+ pirated video games on the HDD and sold for $500. Read more about it in our previous articles about this case here and here.
Read the whole pressrelease on businesswire.com.
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