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Originally Posted by PKFFW
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Ah yes,
there's the ignore button.
Anyway...
Harry - Certainly. Are you a games dev? Private forum you can access if so where there's some details (PM me for details if you are a games dev). Or there's the anonymous google groups invite-only mailing list discussing this. I don't have any invite slots left this year, feel free to ask another member.
But they're on a
target for bans, not just "ban modders". I find that rather disturbing (ban quotas are...bad).
And I can confirm that one batch (75k I believe) were all banned, although apparently they're "working on unbanning" those. Looks like they have a slightly different drive in that batch and it triggered the flag. Incidentally, Microsoft never ever officially admit that a console was wrongly banned, it just starts working again. That's one way to avoid some legal liability.
I can absolutely confirm there's at least one unmodded console which has been banned in the UK, which the owner intends to bring legal action about. In fact, it's likely I'll be one of the witnesses that in the 18 hours he's owned the console he hasn't modded it. (In fact, it's been unpacked for less than 2).
Oh, and also? Seperately, you
will get a
gamertag ban if you play a legitimate game while logged into Live before the street date. Want to defend that as well?
Let's not even go into them disabling access to any memory sticks they don't themselves produce (not legitimate, even in America - see the old chestnut of the garrage door opener compatibility case). For reference, the PS3 can use any USB device for saves, even USB hard disks.