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Kotaku: Xbox Live Smashes Mass Banhammer on Pirates [Ruh Roh]
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Microsoft doing console banning? http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/104/1040853p1.html 21 days ago |
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: Anyone been a "victim"? http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/104/1040853p1.html http://bit.ly/3QnzSR 22 days ago |
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http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/104/1040853p1.html sadness for xbox piraters. If you got caught, well don't pirate. #technobuffalo 23 days ago |
Xbox Live Smashes Mass Banhammer on Pirates [Ruh Roh]
Kotaku —
... taken action against a small percentage of consoles that have been modified to play pirated game discs. In line with our commitment to combat piracy and support safer and more secure gameplay for the more than 20 million members of our Xbox LIVE community, we are suspending these modded consoles from Xbox LIVE." Microsoft wouldn't say exactly when the action was taken, although IGN speculates that, from the chatter, it's been happening over the past week. Microsoft Performs Mass Xbox Console Banning [IGN via Hot Blooded Gaming] [Image from ...
Pirates banned for Halloween on 360
Destructoid —
... Microsoft has come down hard on some pirates this Halloween. No, not the slutty girls in short skirts and low cut pirate blouses or the guys dressed up like Johnny Depp, silly. Gosh, why would you think that unless you constantly think in really bad puns, in which case you lead a terrible life. No, for the past week Microsoft has been banning "a small percentage" of Xbox Live users that had systems that were modded to play pirated games. IGN uncovered the deed after seeing a bit of complaining going on in the ...
Happy Halloween! You're banned from Xbox Live.
Joystiq —
... We hope your recent forays into piracy merely involve you donning a hook and eyepatch for a debaucherous costume party, or else you likely received a message from Microsoft like the headline of this post. The company recently dispatched a wave of bans to owners of ...
Microsoft Sinks Xbox Pirates
N/A —
... play pirated game discs. In line with our commitment to combat piracy and support safer and more secure gameplay for the more than 20 million members of our Xbox LIVE community, we are suspending these modded consoles from Xbox LIVE. Pirating games is one thing that has many different views on, but a large portion of modded consoles are done so for the sake of regional locking, which as far as I’m concerned is the devil itself. Still when there’s a loop there’s always a hole. Source: IGN Tagged as ...
