Well apparently the Xbox 360 has been hacked - it didn’t take long, did it? Some original Xbox owners have illegally modified their machines to run copies of videogames off of their hard-drives. As a result, these gamers would be able to save a good deal of money because they wouldn’t have to purchase games of their own - rather they’d just borrow a copy, copy it, and return it from wherever they got it.

When talking of the Xbox 360 throughout 2005, Microsoft announced it’s done everything it could to prevent similar illegal actions on the Xbox 360. Well, it looks like hackers have already found a way around Microsoft’s protection. According to news.com, some hackers have developed an extraction program that allows Xbox 360 titles to be ripped from their DVDs. However, simply being able to extract data from the 360 DVDs won’t do you much because according to the article, extracted files cannot be run yet. Of course hackers are working to cheat the system to make it so these extracted files do work. Similarly, Microsoft is working around the clock to prevent these hackers from attaining any success.

So who’s going to win? Well, as wrong as we feel playing illegal copies of games is, if the past is any indication, we’d say the hackers will break the system sooner or later. And that will probably happen sooner than any of us would expect.

(Thanks munkyxtc!)

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