Microsoft Comes Down Hard On Modded Xbox Owners
Thousands of gamers may have been cut off from Microsoft’s online gaming service Xbox Live for modifying their consoles to play pirated games.
Online reports suggest that as many as 600,000 gamers may have been affected.
Microsoft confirmed that it had banned a “small percentage” of the 20 million Xbox Live users worldwide.
Microsoft said that modifying an Xbox 360 console “violates” the service’s “terms of use” and would result in a player being disconnected.
“All consumers should know that piracy is illegal and that modifying their Xbox 360 console to play pirated discs violates the Xbox Live terms of use, will void their warranty and result in a ban from Xbox Live,” Microsoft has said in a statement.
“The health of the video game business depends on customers paying for the genuine products and services they receive from manufacturers, retailers, and the third parties that support them.”
From there the article goes on to shout the same bogus amounts ‘lost to piracy’, the article does fail to mention that a LOT of people mod their xboxes to run home brew applications as well as old SNES games.
Read the whole article at: The BBC
Related article: Ars
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