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So far as copyright in software is concerned the law provides that the lawful user may make a backup "where it is necessary for him to have for the purposes of his lawful use".
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However this is generalised and if you read the terms and conditions of your xbox games you would see that making backups of them IS illegal
also from your own source
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Is having your PlayStation chipped illegal?Yes (oh, we're such kill-joys, aren't we!?). The Courts have held that a Chip is a device which circumvents copy protection. Copyright law regards the supply of such devices as an infringement of copyright. New copyright offences arising from the implementation of the copyright directive in the Autumn of 2003 may also apply to PSX chippers
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now using legal precedent and the case of R v McIntyre 2004 this had been decided that ANY chip that is designed or has the quality of circumventing copy protection where also illegal 