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Microsoft retracts: We never said we had 1 million banned XBL accounts |
Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Marc Whitten, Microsoft, xbox 360 titles
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The one million ban that Microsoft pulled on its Xbox Live players with modded console units now have been flagged as a mere "overestimate". Yep, the numbers have supposedly been exaggerated, despite their initial claims that it was at 1 million.XBL General Manager Marc Whitten is responsible for this "admission," in an interview with Venture Beat. Said Whitten, that number did not come from them, and that they never claimed to have banned that much gamers from the XBL.
He did not address, however, the news that came out that Microsoft did order their XBL call center agents to unleash the banhammer on one million subscribers.
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i saw it with my eyes , the director of security of XBL , said it in a chat in IRC , and he confirmed hes identity on twiter .
They aim 1 mil , and this reaction in not about 1mil no but about the Law sue again them .
ther game is known now , stop hacking and breaking peoples Datas M$
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Microsoft did nothing wrong. If you hack the console, and download games (which, oddly, banned people are not denying they did) you are in direct violation of EULA, which you all agreed to when you signed up for XBL.
Really, does it matter if Microsoft banned 1, or 1,000,000 hacked xboxes/accounts? The point is they banned people that had directly violated the EULA. Not only did each and every one of them deserved to be banned from XBL, but Microsoft did the right thing, and they are within their rights.
perhaps site should be renamed to QQjnet with the amount of whiners and people with mal-aligned ideas of entitlement that hang out here.
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flashing the console
cripting HDD files
and the worse is many anmoded x360 was banned .
M$ is slashing hevily x360 players before xmas .
that is a direct direct violation of people right and privacy .
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I think that's the main point of contention with the lawsuit. Did Microsoft go too far when they screwed your offline abilities when banning you from an online service, or was it completely within their rights?
Although hackers and pirates don't get much sympathy from me, it does seem in this case Microsoft went further than should be allowed.
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hacked accounts u said lol ,
its clear that M$ is taking advantage of hiden troja, included in xbox360 to ban the console MAC adress wich is normal , but disabling xbox live account without refund is ripping , also what about people saves and personal data , no my $riend , as sony said , M$ will take it on face this time . all my friends have original games a,d spent money in xbox live now they are banned , they have moded xbox 360 but i dont see why to break people personal stuff ...
the court will judge for this
hey apple : you can break all jailbreaked iphone
M$ : you can break any pc with a no official hdd or memory
Nokia : go for it break all unlocked nokia's
M$ why are so greedy again young peoples who buy your console ,
just remember your story on XP while you retrived informations from PCs
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@Vizard. You're obviously not from America, so please don't act like you know anything about American laws.
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Oddly, no such press release, news tidbit, commentary from the peanut gallery or anything else can find a single solitary hint that this supposed 'director of security' has been removed. (Or that, any of this touted discussion came from him. I mean, really? Some people like to cling to rumors.)
As an aside, the data on the 360 is messed up because its tied to a gamertag+consol e ID. The tag is, funny enough, owned by Microsoft once you sign up to XBL. They can do whatever they want with it. You agree to that, twice, before you even get on XBL and get any data onto your HDD.
People need to cry a little less. They *****ed up, they got *****ed. In the end, MS has the legal right to not only have the people who do this arrested (Read the DMCA people, its in there.) but can seek monetary damages of a ludicrous amount for every single game they find.
That is the reality of pirating.
It is /not/ legal to own a backup of anything anymore. Especially not in a closed system like a console+game. The games are protected. Any attempt to copy them and remove or circumvent the protection is illegal.
Even if backups were legal (Which they arent) you'd have to make them using all your own hardware/software, you wouldnt be able to download them or download instructions on how to make any of it. Thats another part of the legal ramifications of backups. (Did you know? You can make legal backups of non-protected software like SNES cartridges if you make your own dumper.)
tl;dr People are stupid. As the mighty intarwebz decrees, 'pics or it didn't happen'.
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no this is abvious .
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the processe of banning is ilegal , as ive said , M$ do not have right to baypass our reuters and networks without people autorisation , bcz if they can , so all xbox360 oxner data is on m$ mercy .
M$ made a multy agression aroun the world and should now unban all xbox360 and stop hacking people .
and the accure not only from moding but 3d party HDD and mayby auter things not related to piracy , but gamer good been .
ref
ps3 : use any hdd , memory or accesory
WII : use any accesory
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I would definately own a 360 for Cracking and burning games, but just wouldn't go online (till chips and CFW's had been input). Paying to play online is just rediculous to me as i'm already paying power and internet to get online.
Unfortunately, the only way people will be able to get functionality back is to flash the system and rebuild (i never looked into whether this is possible either)
To All whom have not been banned - take what you can and get offline now - otherwise you could loose all decent functionality of your system (well, i use the term "Decent" very loosly - Fanbot dig :P)
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and isnt it weird that Steam is free but not XBL?
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