Anyway I'll lock it for now , its up for the moderator of this section if he wants to continue on with the discussion.

Modding does not equal to piracy. Generally people modify their console to get root access (this includes iPhone , Nokia) and mainly to mess with core system files. For instance one may want to modify xbox 360 console to run linux but then generally an average Abu/Muthu/Chong would associate modding and piracy together