It bothers me that the very "hacking" that made video games even possible (modifying the console or computer system to do what it wasn't intended to do) is now being called illegal by the ESA. I maintain that there wouldn't be any video games to hack, morally or immorally, without old school hacking from the late 1940s through at least the 1980s.

The ESA are the ones trying to redefine the language to suit their pocket books. They are the ones trying to claim that "hacking" can only mean circumvention of copyright protection, when the word has a place in many different contexts and applications, and can be good/moral/legal or bad/immoral/illegal, or any combination. Even said circumvention can be for good or fair use reasons, as the EFF is arguing.