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Some light on the subject:
Legal issues
Some nations have laws prohibiting modding and accuse modders of attempting to overcome copy prevention schemes. In the United States, the DMCA has set up stiff penalties for modding. In the European Union, member states have agreed the EU Copyright Directive and are transposing it into national law. A man was convicted in the United Kingdom in July 2005 for selling a modded Xbox with built in software and games.
Multi user licensing
Computer systems, hardware, software is often sold or licensed to one home machine, to a business that has many computers, a government agency, or non-profit organization. When the software license says that it is for a specific person, then it is not legal for that software to be used by some other person on that same computer, even a member of the same family, or another employee of the same company. For more than one person to be using that software or hardware, they need to have a multi-user license, that usually dictates how many different people may use it.
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Is this a Halo CE (Custom Edition) mod? Not a Halo 1 (which is the xbox version)?
If so, your subject line for the thread is misleading.
That's what I'm trying to say. I know if its the Custom Edition, Then it's ok. Sure.
But he specifically said Halo1. Not Halo Custom Edition.
So I just concluded that he was modding a game that would be illegal to mod (Goes against Bungies User Agreements, Terms of Use and mutiple other rules.)
[Edited on 11/9/2006]