HDDs to Be Re-Enabled on Banned X360 Consoles

sounds good to me. now that means i don't have to take apart and hack away at this useless white hunk of plastic to get that feature..which i wasn't using. i was about to buy a bunch of things but since microsoft banned that one, i haven't purchased any microsoft products ever since. it just doesn't make sense that they lock people out who are buying services from them as well as points. I may get -5k for this post, but realistically folks I have one system that still is not banned and not modded either so whatever.

how am i supposed to get the update if i'm banned from XBL?

Eh i understand what your saying but.

If your gonna hack in most Multiplayer games you get banned from the game so bye bye 50 bucks. With Microsoft you hack you get 300 dollar System banned and a HDD bricked. While I'm not for the disabling of the hard drive its the price you pay for using hacked/pirated software on their device..and getting caught.

No offense to anyone with a disabled HDD, but stop hacking, and/or buy your Xbox 360 game. Or get a PS3/PC. I mean you agree to the terms and services when you sign up for Live.

Always get a kick out of people bitching about getting their 360s disabled when 85-95% of the time its because they're either running pirated videogame(s) and got caught or are hacking in a multiplayer game for whatever stupid reason.

I am against cheaters and pirates on consoles, but from day one I disagreed with Microsoft. You paid for the hardware you should have the right to mod it however you want. Now keeping you from playing online was a kick in the balls by itself since it's the only console system you have to pay $50 a year to do so. I said they went too far from the beginning it's nice to seem them reverse their totalitarian control just a little.

darkknight22, you download the update from the linked url or you download it from microsoft's xbox live page.

fatfunkey, I never hack in multi player online games, and rarely in single player offline games. xbox live seems to be a fairly safer ground for online gaming than on PC however then again..there was a LOT of wall hacking in halo2 on that system and yes it is very annoying behavior. I only had fun in single player, playing that game online is getting head shot sniped every split second of spawning..no fun unless I suppose u know how to wall hack right away or whatever those guys are doing to avoid it.

fatfunkey, even better use of your money and time would be to pick up some books or some courses at a college instead of wasting time/money on microsoft's games and have a better life. my cousin spends the majority of his time on xbox live and he has no money and yeah...you see the big picture right? there's cars he drives in online games he'll never be able to buy.. it is rather sad.

when you sign up for a service like xbox live, you do so under certain conditions. same with steam and VAC. if you don't want to abide by them than don't sign up for the service.

That is completely besides the point of shutting off your entire console completely. So basically you're saying signing up and giving complete control over your ownership of the product for online gaming is a legit business practice? Come on now!

then don't pirate games.

I don't. Of course modding gets a bad rap automatically affiliated with pirating and as I said blocking someone from XBL is one thing, disabling there hardware is another. There are a lot of reasonable reasons, modding allows you to cheat on the single player and yes unfortunately MP as well if you go that route but I don't see built in cheats anywhere in most games and hell even PC games you have to hack the memory to make your own nowadays.

If modding your own hardware is such a bad thing put it in the context of Intel disabling your processor if you overclocked it and Microsoft automatically checked every time you booted your machine. I think people might change there mind if that was the case. My only question is do you own your own hardware anymore? According to Microsoft you didn't until now that they reversed the policy. If people are going to be so blind as to get all up in arms about my defense towards your own hardware then so be it, but someday it will bite you in the ass if you allow it to slide slowly just like our privacy online is slowly being trampled.

then i guess modding your console is illegal but microsoft doesn't know about most of them because most people who mod them are not STUPID enough to go online with them. heck its like if you rob a bank and then go call the police telling them what you did and where you are.

i think this was just a bug and MS will correct it banning all those consoles again

you agreed to a terms of service. you disobeyed it. you get punished, end of story. make a forum and discuss it elsewhere.

Wern't some of these banned for hdd upgrades that were not sold by microsoft. I mean really whats next you have to have a
$400. 00 microsoft xbox branded router. Look at the prices then look at a laptop hdds price. Not sure what this has to do with consumer piracy. Now corperate piracy thats a different story.

Ah, but when Microsoft rip you off it's profiteering, not piracy....

Catch someone hacking, you ban them.
you DO NOT disable hardware. It's the one thing we do own.

How about you stop raping people on games?
$60, really? I have a huge stack of games I played for 10 minutes and decided I never wanted to try again, and it gets quite expensive.

it is really interesting to see such extreme views on this topic...

Really interesting to see people in favour of a company disabling a hardware piece you bought in a store, without signing any contract enab;ling anyone to do so.... If you agree to such an agreement, though, when signing up to the xbox live, then you should feel pity for your self for allowing yourself to be manipulated the way you manipulate/exploit a game....

Legally, disabling a hardware in such a way is not valid, no matter what..... kicking you out of the game or getting banned is another thing...

It is like in mmorpgs when you hack/abuse/exploit etc.... you get banned from the game.... They delete or invalidate your character/subscription.... they have no legal right of access to any piece of your hardware...

this is excellent news. i have about 15 friends who have had their xbox 360's nuked by microsoft.

Welcome to the Microsoft World Order. If it isn't dodgy and vulnerable we'll disable it. Do yourself a favour and install Linux.

Consoles are made for gaming (and maybe some media centre uses). Modding a console for other purposes than pirating a game is stupid IMO. If you need to use your console for any other reason than gaming, then go and buy yourself a PC, which you can modify until your heart is content.

If you sign up to XBL, modify your console and then get it bricked, it is your problem. MS will assume, and rightly so IMO, that you modded your xbox in order to pirate as they do not believe you would mod your console for any other reason.

If I make a virus that attacks microsoft and corrupts their data, the FBI comes after me. But if microsoft dose it to me, its ok. This is all good for business and that is how the country is ran.

read the article. these are 360's that had been modded to play pirated software. not for glitching or hacking.

You buy an Xbox you pay the Xbox tax. It's really simple. If you want to switch out hardware and such, buy a PC. Don't cry that M$ won't let you use a hard drive they didn't sell you. Also, stop crying about games being "too expensive". NES games were $50-70 back in the day. You want to try before you buy? RENT! Better yet, stop being cheap a$$es and stop buying used games at Gamestop. Game developers do not see ANY of that used game sale and they need to compensate for it. A game being bought once doesn't justify it being sold 10 times. The only one who profits is Gamestop meanwhile they give you chump change for your used game to begin with. Get over it.

Lavacon, by your logic, we should all buy new cars, and be protesting used car dealers. Not defending Gamestop at all, but the concept of selling/buying used items is definitely not at the root of Gamestops problems. And, yes, a game being bought once does justify it's being sold 10, 20 or even 30 times. That is the whole concept behind capitalism, you buy something from someone at an agreed price, and figure out a way to sell it again at a profit.

You don't actually buy an xbox, it is more like you are just renting it.

i will never stop hacking all you little fanboys need to shut your mouths ms will never get me to turn my ways for crying out loud gates stole the whole idea of windows from jobs so whos the hacker now im pretty sure gates is grinding his teeth at me but kma gates this is your end result and on top of that ms racks billions every year so to you fanboys you fears us hackers and keep this in mind hackers will always be ahead and never stop but ohh well kma fanboys and girls go spend your hard erned dollors on a game that only costs a company cents ill just go download more 360 games for free and enjoy xbox live on my modded console kma losers

I go out and spend my hard earned money on games that I enjoy playing. The developers make their hard earned money from creating them. Why should some people get away without paying for them?

If you pirate games, then you damn well can't complain about getting banned from XBL.

hackers or modders who play online deserve to get banned.
stay offline or go legit.

attention attention hackers and modders play online dont sell out we cant be stoped and never will be sliem i will never go legit and stay online with my mods and hacks we deserve to be commended for doing what we do so awwww to bad you have been owned by hackers and modders live with it im gonna go play splinter cell conviction on my xbox oh what you have to wait 3 days oh well noobs