360 Hacked To Play Backups

xorkid writes "Microsoft Corps ' unhackable' Xbox 360 console has been hacked. It is now possible to play copied games from recordable DVD DL discs without any soldering or hardware modification. The ingenious hack involves replacing the original 360 DVD firmware with a modified version that authenticates recorded DVD DL discs as original game discs. The hack does not require any modification devices but it requires a 1:1 copy of an original signed disc from the same region as the console. So it does not allow booting of unsigned code, yet. No Linux on the 360 for now, but its a start. There are rumours that there is an as-of-yet unreleased version that allows booting of unsigned code."

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How about a tiny shred of honesty?

[seebs]

It's not "backups". It's "copies".

First off, we all know damn well how many people really use things like this for "backups". (It's no surprise that Alcohol Software had to go to online authorization and activation; their customer base is 99% dishonest.)

Secondly, all these people "playing backups" must be awfully incompetent to have lost their originals so quickly. If you're "playing the backup" when you still have access to the original, it's not a backup, it's a working copy. The one that's stored in case of disaster is the backup; the one you actively use normally isn't.