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Originally Posted by Shaggy
No, but in countries where modding has specifically been legalized they are attempting to overrule those laws with their EULA. Whether or not an EULA is allowed to take away legal rights is questionable. In such countries, MS is basically saying that in order to use the LIVE service you have to give up your legal right to modify the hardware. That's not likely to stand up in court.
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True on that.
MS really should have just stripped region coding in Australia--which I assume would get rid of any legal need to mod the console.
Or just said screw it and not sold their product there. They make most of their money in the US and Europe anyway.
I have no problem with their EULA, but I do agree that it probably won't hold up in court int his instance for the reason you list. Though I think it should as I have no problem with companies requiring certain conditions for allowing people to use a network service they provide as long as they are up front about those conditions. It's their network, they can do what in terms of who they let on it IMO.