That is the catch...They were threatening his children wife aswell.    This days you never knew.

If this is to be believed, the banning spree was pretty massive and will continue:

http://pinoycosplay.blogspot.com/2009/11/microsoft-bans-600k-xbox-live-accounts.html?zx=dd005e0b5270b43c

Monday, November 9, 2009

Microsoft bans 600K Xbox Live Accounts, More to Follow

A conversation with a friend who works for a call center that handles an Xbox 360 account has yielded a disturbing truth: Microsoft has started its annual Xbox Live banning spree and it has disabled 600,000 accounts so far in the US and Canada.

The target of the banning spree are mainly people who have modified their consoles to play pirated games. My trusty source says that they have been given instructions to push for a million banned accounts by the time the holidays are over.

"Our office has gone to hell," says the source. "People have been calling in around the clock and most of them are screaming teen-agers who don't understand the terms of use that comes with the console they bought."

There you have it. If you're a big Mininova fan like GamerTotoy, stay away from Xbox Live until after Christmas to continue playing online.

Posted by Squattingdog at 10:50 PM

JaggedSac said: If this is to be believed, the banning spree was pretty massive and will continue: http://pinoycosplay.blogspot.com/2009/11/microsoft-bans-600k-xbox-live-accounts.html?zx=dd005e0b5270b43c Monday, November 9, 2009   Microsoft bans 600K Xbox Live Accounts, More to Follow A conversation with a friend who works for a call center that handles an Xbox 360 account has yielded a disturbing truth: Microsoft has started its annual Xbox Live banning spree and it has disabled 600,000 accounts so far in the US and Canada. The target of the banning spree are mainly people who have modified their consoles to play pirated games. My trusty source says that they have been given instructions to push for a million banned accounts by the time the holidays are over. "Our office has gone to hell," says the source. "People have been calling in around the clock and most of them are screaming teen-agers who don't understand the terms of use that comes with the console they bought." There you have it. If you're a big Mininova fan like GamerTotoy, stay away from Xbox Live until after Christmas to continue playing online. Posted by Squattingdog at 10:50 PM

Dam 600k thats alot. that is only in americas lol what about europe.

dam man next year banning is gonna be the highest banning of pirated consoles microsoft has everdone.

Sounds like a bunch of nerdy / hippy tech pirates have someone hit upon the delusion that they are real pirates. I bet Blackbeard if he was still alive could kick all their filthy, scrawny, pasty asses with one hand tied behind his back at the same time.

MS.. oh MS.. stop trying to piss OFF ppl who actually bother to buy your console. PS1/2 had piracy and it worked wonders for them. Leave the wifi addons and the HDD modders alone. All this draconian activity is making me want a ps3slim, and i dont even pirate games.....

Hmm.. well, is microsoft actually banning hdd modders? I thought wave this was for piracy. Sony did try to curtail piracy on the PS2 through changing motherboard designs to make modchip installs harder, introducing DNAS for online play (pretty useless though), and eventually by introducing the slim. With the PS1 Sony went after companies selling modchips and were responsible for lik-sang being shut down (afaik). Sony learned from their past mistakes and at least removed some of the motivation to mod the console by making the ps3 region free for games, and allowing the user to install linux at least on the fat models.

I think MS should tracked down some modded 360 owners and either arrest them or heavily fine them just so they can put fear in the hearts of the other pirates!!!>)

problem is, there is always a way against being banned if you know what you are doing, so it really does not solve the problem.

im sure his wife persisted too much that he had to do it