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Microsoft Disconnects Modded Xbox Users
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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What are you talking about? I don't own an iPod or a Mac. I just get sick and tired of hearing slashdot losers whining cause Apple won't allow them to install OS X on hardware Apple doesn't want to support or they can't use the iTunes store from other devices that Apple doesn't approve as if Apple has an obligation to provide things at the behest of the whiner.
Timothy, if you ever so much as mention that p-word in the context of copyright again, I'll seriously come over and personally gonna kick your ass! I mean it!
You can sue me. But you can't avoid it!
Fuckin' idiots! You all heard that FUD word so often, that now it became normal to you, and you repeat it yourself as if it were nothing!
Every single time you make someone read that word, you throw another log on the big fire of the media industry, to burn free thought and art as we know it!
So every time you use that word, art and freedom die a little. And YOU are guilty!
The day when I will just let it slide, when someone uses media industry FUD, is the day when I die! But I won't die without taking the guilty ones with me!
There. With all you cattle living your lives in a walking daze, that FINALLY had to be said!
The funny thing is, you probably will mod me down for it, because if I attack them, to save you, you attack me to save them. Fuckin' brilliant!
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Go fuck yourself, seriously. I bought an lcd monitor a few years back, it just died on me so I smashed the shit out of it. Funny thing is I coulda smashed the shit out of it when I first bought it, I coulda put stickers on it too if I cared to. Hell I could have sex with my monitor if I choose so! The point is IT IS MY MONITOR I CAN DO WHAT I LIKE TO IT! Still dont get it? How about we go buy a brand new car and put a new engine in it, or we can go buy some food and throw it away. YOU CAN DO ANYTHING TO ANYTHING YOU BUY! What the fuck is wrong with these people, no one can tell me how to use the shit I buy, and if that means I wanna mod my console because assholes lock shit out and I miss out on a ton of jp games is just how it goes! Fuck your ToS, Fuck your EULA's, and fuck all of those big businesses that hurt and punish customers, then stab them in the back. I will do what I please to anything I own, if big corporations cant deal with that then they need to go and die like the dinosaurs.
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Let me guess. Like every other tedious online atheist, liberal, conservative, and angry-opponent-of-copyright-law, you're a 14 year old who is bitter at mom and dad for making you go to school, or church, or anywhere that requires a modicum of effort. You're either a stereotype or a human spam-bot. The question is, will you look back in 10 years and shudder to think how loud-mouthed windbags have contributed to the decline of civility, or will humanity have already been crushed by this intellectual suicide, leaving us all too busy slathering butter on our McDinners to consider how incredibly stupid and brutish we've become? Here's the real crime in the life of the lowest common denominator: you. are. boring. Even idiots have their place in the ecosystem; who else is going to keep our bathrooms sparkly clean? But when language dies we revert back to animals, so for God's sake at least try to be a dancing bear or something that keeps us entertained. I love my stupid dog, but at least he doesn't try to convince anyone he has something worthwhile to say.
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The great thing about online console play (the only thing, really, that it has over PCs) is their closed nature. It's much, much harder to cheat on a console than on a PC game.
Don't get me wrong. I fully support their right to mod their own hardware. But I don't want to play them online.
And this post goes to show exactly why you are so ignorant. Why don't you want to play them online? OMG THEY ARE PLAYING THE PIRATED GAMEX0rS! Ohnoes!
You have no way of telling if someone has a modded console or not, as a player. They play by the same rules as you do. If you are getting pwned online, which is sounds like you are, it's because you suck, not because they are "cheaters." There are no cheaters on XBL that are the result of modding a console. Modding a console allows you to play pirated games, erm, I mean backed up games. That's it. Don't whine and complain and point fingers at the pirates because you suck. Go use your time constructively to get better at the games you're getting pwned at.