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ethomaz on 14 May 2015

Lock me if old.

Now, new wording is about to reach the community regarding this particular event. The nature of the leak having had occurred through Xbox One, actually also went against the Microsoft EULA, which is agreed upon when creating an Xbox LIVE account, or any other type of Microsoft account. This being said, as per that agreement with the testers in fault, Microsoft also permanently disabled their Xbox LIVE accounts (as well as other suspected accounts present on their Xbox One kits) and temporarily blocked all of their Xbox One privileges – meaning that for a period of time which Microsoft decides on depending on the severity of the offense, their Xbox One is entirely unusable.

http://kotaku.com/microsoft-punishes-gears-leakers-by-making-their-xbox-o-1704531500

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Mod Edit

Ka-pi96 said:

As I had suspected it does NOT completely disable the console.

“To be clear, if a console is suspended from Xbox Live for a violation of the Terms of Use, it can still be used offline,” a representative told us. “Microsoft enforcement action does not result in a console becoming unusable”

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/05/14/microsoft-responds-to-xbox-one-kill-switch-reports-related-to-nda-violations.aspx?utm_content=buffer2350f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer





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Spade on 14 May 2015

I look forward to the inevitable thread on here when/if they do it.



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ethomaz on 14 May 2015
Slade6alpha said:
I look forward to the inevitable thread on here when/if they do it.

They did it.

The Gears leakers had their console brinked... seems like it is temporary and MS can debrink it when they want.



SweetTalia on 14 May 2015

Good, leakers should die imo.

you cannot accept and agreement and go break it as you feel like it. i guess they learned the hard way.
:-p



Praise the One.

Mystro-Sama on 14 May 2015

Aren't all consoles manufacturers capable of that?



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Spade on 14 May 2015
ethomaz said:
Slade6alpha said:
I look forward to the inevitable thread on here when/if they do it.

They did it.

MS = evil, smh MS. 



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ethomaz on 14 May 2015
Mystro-Sama said:
Aren't all consoles manufacturers capable of that?

I know they can ban you from online but make the console unusable? I mean even for offline play?



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KingdomHeartsFan on 14 May 2015

If these leakers signed a contract and broke it Microsoft could probably do a whole hell of a lot worse than this, I think they got off easy.



LudicrousSpeed on 14 May 2015
Myso-Sama said:
Aren't all consoles manufacturers capable of that?


Yep. Sony did it to PS3 pirates last gen.

Moral of the story kiddos is dont pirate games on a console you connect to the internet, and dont break the NDA for an unannounced game :)