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Originally Posted by Shaggy
I don't see how, unless you're distributing it. Modifying your own 360 shouldn't be a copyright violation.
Not from what others on this thread are saying. Maybe the modified firmware you're using only allows that, but there seem to be people modifying theirs for other reasons.
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People don't hack the firmware on their 360's drives themselves. Very few people in the world actually have the knowhow to do this. They download an already modded copy of the firmware which has been tweaked to enable the drive to bypass the disk's protection. This in itself probably causes all sorts of problems when it comes to copyright, the firmware code isn't written from scratch, the original firmware is decrypted from the drive and then hacked at until it works as needed. And this still doesn't bypass region coding!
There also seems to be some confusion as to the xbox1 and the newer xbox 360. The old xbox1 could be modded (via a chip) to run unsigned code which gave it uses other than to play pirate copies. But no one does this on the 360 it's just too difficult and involves an awfull lot of work just so you can then do amazing stuff like run linux (wow! - not). It also involves using an older 360 kernel which then means no Live access anyway! You have to keep your 360 uptodate to use Live.
So lots of wrong and out of date information in this thread that doesn't apply to the op.
Oh and if someone can point me to some reliable evidence showing more than a tiny proportion of legit users being banned I'd love to see it. In my experience most people who maintain they weren't using a modded console but were banned were either lying or reverted their firmware back after being tagged. MS tags consoles months and months before the ban takes place so reverting won't always help.