Roasted prosecutors drop their case.
A first-of-its-kind court case brought against an alleged Xbox 360 modder has been dismissed after the judge gave prosecutors a 30 minute dressing-down.
As reported by Wired, US district judge Philip Gutierrez bellowed that he had “serious concerns about the government’s case,” adding, “I really don’t understand what we’re doing here.”
He then criticised prosecutors of 28-year-old Matthew Crippen, who was accused of two counts of violating the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, for calling witnesses who could also be guilty of criminal behaviour themselves.