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Xbox 360 Flashing To Play Back Up Games???

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  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
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    Where did you get this info?Everything Ive read says its legal

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    Where are you reading it from?
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  • On the internet.Everything I can find on it claims its legal,nowhere can I find any mention of it being illegal.Must be very common knowledge if it nowhere on the net!
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  • aliEnRIK
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    On the internet.Everything I can find on it claims its legal,nowhere can I find any mention of it being illegal.Must be very common knowledge if it nowhere on the net!

    Its been talked about on here loads

    I cant be bothered looking for them but for 1 (if memory serves) ~
    If the EULA dictates that making a copy of the game is illegal then its illegal regardless of the intentions
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  • marleyboy
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    edited 30 January 2010 at 6:05PM
    Thats fair enough but its LEGAL to flash an xbox360 drive and play YOUR OWN BACKUP GAMES!It becomes illegal if you play illegally copied games.Most gamers will have had damaged and unplayable games in the past.Flashing allows you to keep your originals in a safe place away from meddling kids and drunk mates!
    The illegality issue is the potential to do it for the sole purpose of playing "copied" games, either purchased on the black market or simply copied from rental companies, which is deemed "illegal".

    MSE does not condone such matters because of the potential to illegality, one may say it is not illegal to name a good place to buy cannabis/cocaine from, however it certainly is illegal to "possess" it.

    Therefore it would seem reasonable for MSE to forbid such discussions ;)
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  • aliEnRIK
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  • vyle
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    In america, it's legal to backup your games, music, etc and to mod consoles.

    In europe (Except in spain i believe) it's illegal. Yes, even modifying a playstation 2 to have a fliptop lid (before the slim came out) was illegal.

    Most information online comes from the american perspective. Besides, if you already own the games legally, what benefit would it have for you to flash the console to play backups?

    Furthermore, as a friend of mine found out after he got banned from XBL, it means that any LEGAL dlc you may have purchased, any game updates and all online benefits are also lost.
  • vyle read the earlier posts an you will find out why I want to flash it and that im not fussed about online gaming
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  • marleyboy
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    In the United Kingdom, you are allowed 1 backup copy of every original game that you own. Copying original games these days is a little complex for most gamers, as on Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360 you have to extract security sectors. This can be a time consuming process.

    Where downloading backup copies is not illegal, it is illegal for you to upload and share this type of file. Avoid uploading and sites that require you to keep a ratio of upload to downloads.

    Certainly flashing your console is not illegal, you own it. But as I said in my first post, I suggest you use Google to find the wheres & hows, there is no way MSE will allow its discussion for legal reasons.
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  • aliEnRIK
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    marleyboy wrote: »
    In the United Kingdom, you are allowed 1 backup copy of every original game that you own. Copying original games these days is a little complex for most gamers, as on Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360 you have to extract security sectors. This can be a time consuming process.

    Where downloading backup copies is not illegal, it is illegal for you to upload and share this type of file. Avoid uploading and sites that require you to keep a ratio of upload to downloads.

    Certainly flashing your console is not illegal, you own it. But as I said in my first post, I suggest you use Google to find the wheres & hows, there is no way MSE will allow its discussion for legal reasons.

    Can you post a link to back that up please?
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  • marleyboy
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