In Russia, a man was first convicted for Xbox 360 firmware, and then acquitted!

Department K , Kaluga subdivision, carried out a special operation to catch a particularly dangerous criminal who carried out illegal actions - Xbox 360 Consoles Firmware .

Firmware - drive firmware change technology that allows you to run unlicensed disks on the console

The special operation proceeded according to the usual scenario; a front officer of department K, posing as a normal person, asked to buy the console upon purchase, for some money, Orhan Abbasov, the seller, agreed.

After the transfer of money, Orhan Abbasov was detained, and later was convicted and received a sentence of 1.5 years of conditional imprisonment with a probation period of 2 years, in addition, Orhan Abbasov received a fine of 45,000 rubles.

What does this mean?

- Earlier on Habré, there were already discussions about the fact that it is impossible to provide installation services for pirated applications for money.
The same news means that any manipulation of the console software is also illegal and prosecuted.
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And yes, in our country they again began to tighten the screws, though not the right ones.

UPD:
According to the list and the results of the consideration of cases by the appeals instance, scheduled for a hearing in the judicial division in criminal cases of the Kaluga Regional Court on March 14, 2013, Abhanov Orhan Anvar oglu was convicted of Part 1 of Article 272 (3 ep.), Part 1 of Article. 273 (Ep. 3) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ... The sentence is repealed. A criminal case on the basis of paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Article 227 of the Code of Criminal Procedure to return to the prosecutor of Kaluga to remove obstacles to its consideration by the court. Preventive measure not to elect.

UPD2
Abbasov Orhan Anvar ogly - was convicted of part 1 of article 272 (ep. 3), part 1 of article 273 (ep. 3) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ... The sentence is canceled.
A criminal case on the basis of paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Article 227 of the Code of Criminal Procedure to return to the prosecutor of Kaluga to remove obstacles to its consideration by the court .
Preventive measure not to elect .