AN XBOX MODDER has had his trial put on hold as a US District Judge slammed the prosecution's case. It didn't take long for the Vole's console to be hacked and used for innovative applications. It took even less time for the weight of US law to come down on the head of one homebrew Xbox hacker, Matthew Crippen.
The US government filed a criminal case against Crippen for homebrew hacking. The prosecution laid charges for violations of the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If convicted Crippen could spend up to five years in federal prison.

However, presiding Judge Philip Gutierrez was so annoyed by the government's case that he spent 30 minutes berating prosecutors in open court.

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