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Student Arrested for Hacking Game Consoles

Posted in gamer, gaming news, hacking, Modders, strange stories, tech news, True Crime with tags , , , , on August 5, 2009 by nunetherlands

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Homeland Security authorities arrested Matthew Crippen, 27, from his Anaheim home following his indictment for allegedly breaching the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.

The Cal State Fullerton liberal arts student is accused of hiring himself out to circumvent copyrighted encryption technology on Wii, Playstation and Xbox games.

Full Story At Wired.com