"Little bastards" is not a legal term, it is a personal slur on a moral matter. Of course it's illegal, but chipping a 360 to play a favorite game that was only released in Europe or Japan, legality or wisdom completely notwithstanding, does not make one a fucking "little bastard". And it's pompous self-righteous tarts who try to turn a legal matter into a stupid black and white moral issue: not even through a reasoned debate, but rather through a juvenile, horrible slur in a profession publication.
I'm not defending or promoting console chipping, I'm calling out how absolutely horridly inexcusable it is to jam this sort of cocky unfounded insults in a paid, professional news publication.