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Microsoft Banning Modded Xboxen

Posted by Zonk on from the cry-me-a-river dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Since the release of Halo 2 (ed: and just before), Microsoft has been banning modified Xboxes from Xbox Live. Some have even been banned with their mod-chips turned off. Previously many users had been able to use Xbox Live provided they disabled their mod-chip. There are a few theories floating around as to how MS is doing this: from scanning the hard-drive for non-MS material to being able to check if the DVD-drive/Hard-disk serial number is from stock or not."

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  1. Re:I must be new here. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't j00 sp3ak 31337?

  2. Re:I must be new here. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You have not been infected with the right 'memes'

  3. Re:It's Halo 2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Halo 2 is what's doing the checking and reporting to MS. They aren't checking themselves. So if you have a modded box that's still playable on Live, stay away from Halo 2 and you should be fine. Unless they include this checking with every new game, that is...

    If you have a X-box what else are you playing besides Halo?

  4. Re:I must be new here. by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's XBoxii.

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  5. Re:the meaning of the word XBOXEN by Flunitrazepam · · Score: 2, Funny

    Source: Common Sense

    Urbandictionary.com

    n. A piece of shit website pretending to be a dictionary.

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