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Xbox 360 Kiosk Demo Spurs Hackers

Posted by Zonk on from the i-wish-i-had-that-kind-of-free-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Those hackers from team PI have released the Xbox 360 experience kiosk demo disc as an ISO. They say this demo contains no media protection and therefore it will run on the Xbox 360 when burned to a DVD-R disc. The disc contains playable demo's on the disk such as Call of Duty 2, which could also be hackable, as PI speculates."

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  1. Quite an achievement... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quite an achievement making an ISO of an unprotected DVD.

    We all bow down to the superiority of the hacking skillz of said release group. I am composing some ASCII art of a very large penis in your honor that you can use in your nfo file.

    1. Re:Quite an achievement... by yottabite · · Score: 3, Funny

      You still have to hand it to them, they did, after all, commence dumping the discs to ISO's a lil while ago all on their lonesome. Also they had the kindness to let us all know of the slip-up, and publish the ISO for people to play with. That said, this isn't really a flame-war I'm trying to start. I don't even HAVE a penis :D

    2. Re:Quite an achievement... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Would you like to share mine? ;)

    3. Re:Quite an achievement... by pswayze · · Score: 2, Funny

      Perhaps you're thinking of the gamecube. The Xbox spun the normal way (unless maybe you lived in Australia?) and didn't require any custom dvd firmware.

    4. Re:Quite an achievement... by lysergic.acid · · Score: 3, Funny

      No penis? Well, since there are no girls that read Slashdot, there's only one other possibility... you must be one of those eunuchs I've been hearing so much about.

    5. Re:Quite an achievement... by TeknoHog · · Score: 4, Funny
      you must be one of those eunuchs I've been hearing so much about.

      This is a eunuchs site after all, if you pardon the misspelling... and with the evil proprietary eunuchs systems, it's time someone started developing a free clone.. we could call it Girls Not Eunuchs or something.

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      Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
  2. Re:No DRM == license to copy freely? by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sure! Of course, IANAL.

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    Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
  3. Does Microsoft fund these guys? by Animats · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're redistributing Microsoft marketing materials. Usually, you have to pay a PR firm to do that.

  4. Mod Parent UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Parent deserves karma points just as a dog requires biscuits to operate. (?!??!)