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more about #banned Habu: Here is what I think. The developers need to make it all digital and lower the damn price. It helped with music pirating. Stores could still sell c... more » Qmzn: Software piracy has lots of faces, but most are pretty ignoble. I knew a 12-year-old kid that pirated every game he had on Steam, constantly switching... more » Jesse Custer: Anyone who is against pirating is butthurt because they can't pirate. #xboxlive more » surge_013: I know this is going to sound controversial- but I think the fact 360 could be easily modded was one of the reasons for its success- look at Sony's su... more » reed: I had read that regarding modded systems, profiles are often banned, or IP addresses -- both suggesting that there are easy workarounds. I'm curious ... more » Golgari: Thats why PS3 sales were any 7th gen console. Because of Piracy. Hell yeah, we can pla fo free with MA Eksbawaks Threesixty and Da Wee!1111OneOneOne... more » Dinopoulos: They get banned because they play the games on Live before official release. The pirated software is "stealthed" so Live knows no difference between t... more » RockyRan: I think the real question is, who thought it was a good idea to use Live with a modded console? If you're using unauthorized mods of a console to play... more » Twik63: meh i'd rather have people pirate then buy used games at gamestop. #xboxlive more » KhaiJB: hmm does this stop the consoles from being used with XMBC? *sees there could be some cheap hardware for media centers...* #xboxlive more » -MasterDex-: Pirates on a console?! That's absurd! Only the PC has pirates, I know this because of the kind publishers who keep telling us so. Good to see some pe... more » robpe36: I foresee a good amount of people selling these banned consoles to GameStop. #xboxlive more » ShaggE: Cracking Eggs Of Wisdom: How appropriate. They fought like cows. #xboxlive more » Jaems: It's surprising to see how anti-pirate Kotaku commenters are. Haven't we all pirated music or at least one PC game/application? It's just about as il... more » CoatedTrout: Pirates should be shot. #xboxlive more » kitsuneconundrum: i wonder, why dont they have different pricing schemes for 'disadvantaged' nations? Less incentive to pirate since its pretty much inrooted socially. ... more » xfelixmorganx: It seems people are forgetting. Buying used games is the equivalent of pirating in the way that microsoft, nor the companies making the game get the m... more » Mattz: I'm still trying to work it out from a perspective of how they supposedly detect these pirated games. It can't be from a unique key on the disc becaus... more » AD.Munck with music in his head.: I know a way to stop pirating for good. Since they can find the systems... make a firmware upgrade and then start up their RRoD machine and kill off a... more » Andrew Wyatt: Sorry about your Xboxes, folks. You knew the rules, though. *predicts hundreds of forum messages saying "wtf were mai accont goe?" #xboxlive more » -
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Xbox Live Smashes Mass Banhammer on Pirates
"A small percentage" of Xbox Live users with modded consoles that allowed pirated games to play woke up to find an early treat in their Halloween bag: a banhammer. More » -
#xboxlive
Early Play on Illegit Forza, Borderlands Resulting in Permabans
Illegitimately obtained early copies of Forza Motorsport 3 or Borderlands, being played online over Xbox Live, have resulted in permabans for the accounts of offending players, Microsoft has confirmed. More » -
#xboxlive
Microsoft Swings Xbox Live Banhammer, Thousands Fall
The forums trolled by Xbox Live subscribers are thick with accounts of bannings today, with what appears to be a broad sweeping set of Live accounts deleted, keeping thousands from accessing online gaming. At this point, we're not sure of the root cause — and neither, does it appear, do those affected — but there is rampant talk in the Xbox Scene forums, at least, about the abuse of pirated copies of games like Gears of War 2 and Call of Duty: World At War. It's all cleaned up "played early" and "back up copy" talk — thinly veiled "I pirated Game X before launch day" — amongst some users. More » -
