People are investing major chunks of disposable income and (astonishingly, in a flat-out work-obsessed society where no one has time) untold hours in modding. It’s one of the fastest up-and-coming social trends in the United States.

And modding has already tumbled head-on into a legal snake pit. —Andy Oram —Control Freaks: Modding and the Clash with Law (oreilley.net)

Modding is the practice of making and sharing new content for existing commercial games.