Published 11/1/2009
at Kombo.com
So some of you out there in the past day or two may have came home from work or school, turned on your precious Xbox 360 only to find a screen telling you that you have been banned from Xbox Live. You know exactly why you were banned as well! You dirty pirate!
Microsoft announced that they had just recently banned a small percentage of consoles that have been modified to play pirated game discs.
Hit the break to find out what a Microsoft spokesperson had to say about it.
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