A Southern California college student has been arrested on federal charges that he illegally modified video game consoles to enable the machines to play pirated video games.

Matthew Crippen, 27, faces ten years in jail for tinkering with Xbox, PlayStation and Wii consoles in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents got a tip from the Entertainment Software Association and searched Crippen's home in May.

Given that the courts appear to be rolling over and giving into the demands of the Entertainment Industry our guess is that he would be lucky to get away with crucifixion for a first offence.