Report: 1 mil Xbox Live members banned for piracy
- November 11, 2009 18:06 PM PST
According to a recent report, Microsoft has banned a sizable amount of its Xbox Live members, under suspicion that they are playing pirated software.
Information Week released a story earlier today revealing that Microsoft has banned around 1 million Xbox Live members the company believes are playing pirated games via modified hardware. This round of reported banning comes as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the year's biggest release, torrent target, and likely Xbox Live phenomenon, has just been released.
While Microsoft has been banning users for years, and has done so en masse before as we've reported, this latest round would be, by far, the largest batch ever. Banned consoles are unable to engage in online gameplay over Xbox Live and also have their warranties revoked, but players are still able to play games offline. Anyone here get banned? Don't worry, we won't tell Microsoft.
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- Nov 11 2009 at 07:10:46:PM PST
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How about I'm not surprised. I've had college students over the years over to mod my consoles and I don't do it. MS know what's happening. It's not worth it.
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yes it is worth it with games at 60.00 a pop and if i get banned so what i dont play online that often anyway,ill just buy a new xbox for 130-to150 on ebay all day long
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i see they're trying to do good, but it says "under suspicion".
i hope nobody accidentally got banned, because if they did they need to contact microsoft immediately.
DON'T MOD YOUR CONSOLE!
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It's a trade-off type thing. I'm not for modding, and in fact, am strongly against it because it ruins it for people who actually pay for the games and want to enjoy it. A lot of my friends do it and just play offline, but IMO, it's not worth it, since most of the games nowadays are made for online with short campaign modes (COD, Halo, etc.)
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Why can't they ban the 1 million racist/homophobe/hate spouting members instead?
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"yes it is worth it with games at 60.00 a pop and if i get banned so what i dont play online that often anyway,ill just buy a new xbox for 130-to150 on ebay all day long"
Good luck with that because if the xbox you buy on Ebay was previously banned you have just bought a $130-$150 paperweight.
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d77543020 wrote:
yes it is worth it with games at 60.00 a pop and if i get banned so what i dont play online that often anyway,ill just buy a new xbox for 130-to150 on ebay all day long
ok. dont buy a game for $60, just buy a new console for double or triple that price every time you get banned? genius idea.
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