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AUG 18 ?Sometimes, you really have to laugh and cry, at the same time, at some of the stuff Speed Test is happening in Malaysia.

This is the transcript of a cross-examination from the Karpal Tm Streamyx Malaysia sedition trail. The person answering is a reporter from RTM, the official mouthpiece of the government. (In the bad old days it was called Radio Television Mahathir.)

Jagdeep: Do you know which party Karpal Singh is from?

Eliani : I am not sure.

Many Xbox 360 owners want to be able to copy their games to have a internet explo if the original is dial up internet connection or damaged. Just imagine if you got a new game scratched after only a few tries. It seemed to be a game that you enjoyed and had paid $50 to own it. If you understand how to copy your Xbox 360 games then you've got a back up. If something does go wrong or it gets lost or scratched then you've got the security of streamyx use a same-as-new backup copy to use and you haven't lost anything.

Just the playing of your video game will tend to cause disk wear over time. Though you may not realize it, every time you play, it becomes a little used and worn a little. More often, gaming disks can be damaged by getting dropped or scratched. Damages like these can generally never be fixed and is why you need to back them up. Scratches also frequently happen due to faulty hardware or mishandled use. Game systems add wear to the disk every time you play it. By duplicating them and making backups, you will never need to buy the same Xbox game again and that saves money.

In order to make a back up copy of your Xbox or Xbox 360 game you will need special software as standard software that you might use to copy CDs or DVDs will not work due to the security codes built in to the video games discs. There are a few different firms that have produced software programs particularly for making backups of Xbox and Xbox 360 games.

After the software has been installed you want to load your original Xbox game into your PC's disc drive and start the duplicating process. It then writes all of this information back to a new blank disk which will be recived by your Xbox console as an original and is impossible to tell it has been copied.

This entire process should take only a few minutes and then you have the comfort and security of knowing that you have a "same as new" backup copy of your game to use in case your original game should become damaged or lost.

It is very important that you understand that we are not trying to encourage you to make illegal copies of Xbox games! Our goal is simply to explain that you can make backup copies of the games that you already own to protech your investment. This is totally legal, and it gives you a technique to make sure you have a copy in case something occurs to the original.

Kelly spends way to much time playing video games and you can read more about how to back up Xbox games at her sister's webpage.