The Black Art of Xbox Mods- P2:This book would not exist without all the incredible amount of diligence by individuals who freely gave their hard-earned knowledge to others. This book is not a unique work by any means, and although everything described herein was performed by me, I do not take credit for figuring out anything on my own. | 6 CHAPTER I Welcome to the Xbox Scene WAREZ ARE FOR PATHETIC LOSERS If your desire with this book is to learn how to pirate games you ll be disappointed because I am absolutely opposed to this illegal activity People who traffic in warez do much to harm the game industry. If you find yourself making excuses to pirate games at least you have a conscience many don t even have that much concern believing that the entire world owes them a favor. It s all about making excuses for bad behavior. The ironic thing about software pirates is that they really don t enjoy playing games at all. It s all about inventory not about having fun The warez groups on IRC the Web and in newsgroups are made up primarily of adolescents still living at home off Mom and Dad s bill with far too much free time on their hands. If software pirates cared more about playing games than their pathetic geekfest warez listings they would find that they are entirely missing the point. Pirated games warez are almost always of very poor quality because games are torn apart resampled reduced in size and reassembled before distribution among warez circles. I have a suggestion for you if you have trafficked in warez Buy used games. There is a very strong and vibrant used video game market now thriving in the retail channels with many games not even a month old going for half the retail price or less. Why waste all of your time going through the whole process of tracking down warez and downloading them when you can buy a game for 1 0 to 15 bucks What is 10 bucks anyway When I was younger that was an average day at the arcade back when console games retailed for 70 to 75 bucks. Stop wasting your time and bandwidth on warez It s dumb. It hurts the very thing that supposedly brings you enjoyment. It is stealing. It takes away from developers who are working their butts off for you to come up with innovative and creative new games. They won t keeping doing that kind of work forever many give up and go into IT .
