Am I the only one that reads the verbose EULAs anymore? I thought that modded Xboxes of any generation were already banned from Live (I can't check the old EULA to be sure anymore beause the new one is up.) As someone previously stated, you buy the hardware and can do whatever you want with it, but Live is not hardware. (This doesn't touch on the fact that the dashboard is software that Microsoft probably claims is licensed rather than sold to you, and that they can revoke the license at any time.) I could add jet engines to my Camero, and as long as I rented a private airfield to use it I'd be fine. But my Jet-Camero wouldn't be street legal. And if it looked like Bumblebee when it turned into a robot, I'd have the MPAA, Hasbro, and Takara all after me. Wait, we were talking about Transformers, right? Anyway, you can mod all you want, but Live is the (pivately owned) public street, and mods aren't street legal.
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Am I the only one that reads the verbose EULAs anymore? I thought that modded Xboxes of any generation were already banned from Live (I can't check the old EULA to be sure anymore beause the new one is up.) As someone previously stated, you buy the hardware and can do whatever you want with it, but Live is not hardware. (This doesn't touch on the fact that the dashboard is software that Microsoft probably claims is licensed rather than sold to you, and that they can revoke the license at any time.) I could add jet engines to my Camero, and as long as I rented a private airfield to use it I'd be fine. But my Jet-Camero wouldn't be street legal. And if it looked like Bumblebee when it turned into a robot, I'd have the MPAA, Hasbro, and Takara all after me. Wait, we were talking about Transformers, right? Anyway, you can mod all you want, but Live is the (pivately owned) public street, and mods aren't street legal.