| o_O.Q said: "A company has a right to refuse additional service to a customer who does things with their equipment they disagree with and violates the terms and conditions of owning" o_O huh?" "conditions of owning"? but i tought that when you own hardware you could do what you wanted with it? someone mentioned ps3s being similar to computers which are hacked all the time and as a result ps3s should also be allowed to be hacked... this is a very confusing issue... i mean since i bought it with my money i should be able to modify it so that i can go online and shoot guys through walls in CoD for example because its my property and i have the right |
XBox Live is a service. A company can set practices in place where, where if you don't mean certain criterion, they don't have to serve you (same goes with PSN, by the way). This criterion can include not modifying your system. There is a case of whether or not you own equipment, if you are legally able to modify it, but not access to a service of a company. Also, you don't own software. When you get software, you buy a license for use. There is debate whether or not one can modify software also. In that case, the licensing agreement will often say no, and you end up losing the right to use that software. Hardware is seen as a different story though. And yes, it gets confusing.
So while one can say you can modify your hardware to enable that, they can also deny you the ability to get on the server. Issue of modifying for use has been in the courts. Nintendo, I believe, lost the court case against the company that made the Game Genie, for example.
