Microsoft Banning 360 Firmware Modders?

arcon5 writes "After several months of silence it was more or less accepted that Microsoft wasn't going to do anything about the firmware hacks that allow Xbox 360s to play backups. Rather surprising, considering the 'inventor' of the hack confirmed in March already that the mods are easily detectable, and the reports that piracy is running rampant in countries like China. It appears that Microsoft is finally taking action against them though, although they may be hitting the wrong persons." Best part of that article is the firmware chip encased in epoxy.

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Banning 360 modders?

[FooAtWFU]

That's a lot of modders, but it's not really that big compared to their entire subscriber base. Wonder why they bothered.

Re:Banning 360 modders?

[Anonymous Coward]

Best Line:

but that would be plain silly since MAC addresses are known not to be unique: they only need to be unique within their physical subnet.

Clearly a 733t H4x0r, he knows all about the Mac Addresses :b

You get those at a Fast Food Restaurant, w/ fries and a Coke....

Can someone repost the text of the entire article?

[popo]

My open source XBOX-360 Web Browser doesn't render Flash yet.

Re:What a gloriously stupid assumption...

[morgan_greywolf]

How naive must someone be to think that silence on the part of a corporation equates to a tacit approval for people to circumvent a piece of hardware's embedded security system in order to run pirated copies of software?

Where in that sentence you quote does it say that they thought the silence was 'tacit approval'. There's a large difference between 'not going to do anything about it' and 'tacit approval'.

I might not do anything about someone's propensity to emit noxious gas from their butthole in my presence, but that doesn't mean that I have given my 'tacit approval' for them to rip huge farts while standing in the same room with me.

Re:No content

[Aladrin]

Or Spanish either, apparently.