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Originally Posted by HarryT
Microsoft are not doing anything to your XBox
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Yes, they are. Hint: Try getting a banned console, making a save game, and copying it to another console. See if it loads. People have actually traced changes being made to the console's NAND memory when a ban occurs, so you're 100% wrong on that I'm afraid - there are several changes related to that and the keyvault which change the way key signing and several other features of the 360 work.
Also, why do you assume they're breaking no laws? They are certainly breaking several about refunds and advertising from my perspective.
deltop - Microsoft are not a person, they're a corperation. They're not the same thing in law. They have to comply with the relevant law on their product offering, end of story.
Also, cite on cheating? Microsoft basically don't do any anti-cheating and it's trivial to fool what there is (and it's a p2p not client/server architecture), but the method I've seen details for is man-in-the-middle, not modding.
pkffw - Yes, you do. The right is established by Microsoft's advertising. Lumping them together in UK advertising was...unsmart.
Anyway, the current evidence is if you've changed hard disk to ones with certain service numbers (legally), tried to load certain kinds of corrupted save game (ongoing investigations into that, but the problem was the *games* in question corrupting saves) while connected or even simply have one complete hardware run? Oops, you're banned.
That's what people are defending. Also, it utterly *** over future revenue streams...I don't get why people don't understand /that/.