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Microsoft Disconnects Modded Xbox Users

Posted by timothy on from the sure-it's-in-the-tos-somewhere dept.

S-4'N3 writes "The BBC reports that Microsoft has disconnected approximately 600,000 Xbox users from Xbox Live because the devices they are using have been modified, either with software or with new chips, to play pirated games. '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.'"

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  1. "a small percentage" by weirdcrashingnoises · · Score: 5, Informative

    600,000 of 20,000,000

    there are some who would call this "three percent"

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  2. Re:Another loser from the entitlement generation by Disgruntled+Goats · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mmm, how was it he didn't pay?

    You mean other than the part where he says he didn't buy the games and just copied them because he felt he was owed them?

    guess he paid for the Xbox, he paid money to the guy for 'chipping' his box, and he paid for the Xbox-live service.. what you are saying was that he didn't pay enough?

    If one wants to play a game, one has to buy it. If one can not afford to pay for the game doesn't mean you are allowed to copy it. One is not entitled to the work of another for free just because someone wants it.