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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. What instead? by tepples · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No one forced any of these people to buy a 360 and no one forced them to agree to the terms of using Xbox Live.

    If one agrees not to modify the hardware, that rules out all three major game consoles. So as major video game publishers leave the PC and flock to the consoles, what's the viable alternative to the console cartel if one wants to play local-multiplayer video games on a TV set?

  2. Uhhh by KharmaWidow · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Maybe I don't understand the nature nor purpose of these mods, but isn't what you do on your hardware your own business if you are not stealing from Microsoft?

  3. Re:In the TOS? It's in the freakin quick-start gui by LanMan04 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    4. Install XMBC and use it as a Home Theater PC.

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    With the first link, the chain is forged.