Xbox Live Smashes Mass Banhammer on Pirates

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chocoloco said:

FKNetwork said:

Dark Chaos said:

Judging by these numbers I think its safe to say that this is big problem and only getting bigger. I am guessing theres atleast 2 million modded 360s out there. I know alot of stores that flash 360s and have their own site. Many people I know don't get banned if they are careful and these sprees just take out the careless modders that usually just sell their banned 360s and get a new one.

Totally agree Dark Chaos,

These ban waves just bring it to reality that this "problem" is real, the xbox flashing scene is HUGE and I mean HUGE, it's estimated that over 20% of all 360's out in the wild are flashed to play "illegal" games.

 

Very true a friend of mine who was just banned had a new 360 waiting. He just buys a 360 takes the hardware out of the shell puts it in the new shell, brings back the ruined 360. And flashes again with a new 360 with new programs to prevent detection. Its a continual cyle that is so easy to do. Especially to rip off a new 360.

Yup, nearly everyone who gets banned on various forums I visit do this exact thing you mention, it is highly illegal but in their words "it is so easy and takes less than 15 minutes to do so why not", this is what I meant earlier when I said its MS that lose out during these ban waves.

And to be clear, I do NOT agree with the above practice and would not do that myself, ever....