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Old 11-14-2009, 09:23 AM   #118
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Perhaps Microsoft feel that those who really do want to carry on playing legally bought games will go and buy another XBox, and hence it will be beneficial to revenue?

There's perhaps also the point that doing something like this, which has been so widely reported in the press, may perhaps deter people from wanting to use pirated games in the future. ie, it demonstrates that they are serious about their terms of service.
This does nothing, except maybe provide the serious tinkerers with something new to work on. This deters nobody from modding their xbox or downloading/buying copied games. If they reduced their prices to the same as everyone's favourite local shady game-dealer, then piracy would be pointless (except as a proof of concept). Charge £5 game and you'll see 90% of piracy disappear overnight.
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