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dsister44 on 03 April 2010
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thismeintiel said:


They didn't lock them out of their hard drives.  They banned their consoles (and anyone who purchaed those consoles used) from Live, a service they were paying for.  And some may have been playing illegal games, but I doubt all 1 mil of them were.  A lot just used it to run Linux and/or use a larger, cheaper HDD than what MS supply.  Though, we really have no proof of what all of them were doing and MS has not revealed any proof that they may or may not have had.  Either way, this means that MS took a feature away that they payed for, to stop a few that would pirate games (though really it doesn't stop them from pirating games, just playing online).  How is that any different than Sony taking away a feature to stop those who would pirate games?  It's not.  The only difference is Sony did it before the PS3 was actually hacked.  Should they have just waited till it was hacked, so it would be ok in your eyes?  Of course not.  They are protecting their interests, just like MS did.

And no the third party memory card isn't on the exact same level as taking away PS3 Linux, but it is similar.  It's still taking away the ability to use whatever memory card you wish on YOUR system.  Again it hurt the ones who just use them for legit reasons, to stop piracy.  Like Sony did with Linux.

http://majornelson.com/archive/2009/11/04/xbox-360-console-bans.aspx 

 

Now get me a link where it says they banned innocent Linux users