Admittedly, having the ISOs is the first step to burning and playing the games (e.g. Dreamcast, Xbox), but the piracy hasn't been retained. I can't think of any case of the Gamecube actually been pirated, except maybe the Panasonic Cube, and that is such a minority that it wouldn't even factor in to Nintendo's revenues. Nintendo, as far as I can see, succeeded in stopping piracy for their latest system, which can't be said for PS2 or Xbox. I'm not saying that the N64 wasn't a piece of shit, it was, but half the time the stuff on PS2 and Xbox games are filler anyways, and they remake the exact same game 50 times. There's only so many times I can play a FPS.
Although Microsoft wouldn't do this for a number of reasons, the best one is that by signing this code, you can flash the BIOS on the Xbox without a modchip, and without ever needing a modchip. All you have to do is solder two points that are right next to each other together, or put a wire between them, and you can run the software to flash the BIOS. People have been trying to crash games to run code like this for months, you think Microsoft is just going to openly sign the code that will enable flashing of the BIOS? It's about as likely as releasing the key to sign it with!
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Admittedly, having the ISOs is the first step to burning and playing the games (e.g. Dreamcast, Xbox), but the piracy hasn't been retained. I can't think of any case of the Gamecube actually been pirated, except maybe the Panasonic Cube, and that is such a minority that it wouldn't even factor in to Nintendo's revenues. Nintendo, as far as I can see, succeeded in stopping piracy for their latest system, which can't be said for PS2 or Xbox. I'm not saying that the N64 wasn't a piece of shit, it was, but half the time the stuff on PS2 and Xbox games are filler anyways, and they remake the exact same game 50 times. There's only so many times I can play a FPS.
Although Microsoft wouldn't do this for a number of reasons, the best one is that by signing this code, you can flash the BIOS on the Xbox without a modchip, and without ever needing a modchip. All you have to do is solder two points that are right next to each other together, or put a wire between them, and you can run the software to flash the BIOS. People have been trying to crash games to run code like this for months, you think Microsoft is just going to openly sign the code that will enable flashing of the BIOS? It's about as likely as releasing the key to sign it with!
We can, and we do. They ported Doom to Windows CE a while ago.