Mod chips can be deactived with the press of one button, playing live is no problem even with burned games. Another advantage to chipping it is that you can place a better cooler. The number of people banned from live are only a fraction of those that don't get caught.

Edit: as for your other question, don't have a 360 anymore (rrod X 2 and sold it) and hadn't modded it.The consoles banned with halo were also easily unbanned http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/06/01/live-ban-for-modded-xbox-360-cracked

I thought you meant case modding.LOL. No with online now, chip modding is out.

in my country .. the orginal game = 10% of the average salary
no one will spend 10% of his salary to buy one game !

they have to buy copy one .. (cost less than 3 $ !)


* orginal game = 70 - 80 $

tell him to do the mod, and then lol in his face when Microsoft PWNs him :)

 Did you even read the other posts? MS doesn't pwn him. Hacks to bypass anything (including bans) are usually online within hours and modding a console is absolutely worth it. Did you even bother to check if your assumption is even true?