Kudistos Megistos on 07 January 2010
I'm not sure about the US, but one man was recently convicted for it in the UK. Interestingly, it seems that the act of modifying a console itself is illegal, rather than modifying it for the purpose of playing pirated games; that means that one is no longer allowed to modify a console to play homebrew or imported games. It seems that Spain is an exception to this interpretation (probably NSFW).
