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The Anarchyz on 09 November 2009

To punish piracy?, GREAT.

To punish innocent people that mods the console to upgrade the hard drive? NOT GOOD.

It's amazing that Sony, a company famous for propietary formats lets people to upgrade the GENERIC HDD on the PS3 without violating warranty terms... And MS, a company famous for letting its OS to work on any x86-based hardware (as long as the minimal requirements are met) bans people for trying to update the PROPIETARY HDD on the 360... Hey, if someone wants to lose his warranty, it's his problem, not MS's...



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The Anarchyz on 09 November 2009
JamesCizuz said:

Yet any custom firmware will auto log you off XBL and lock internet when loading a pirated ISO now so no way to get caught. The only people getting caught are idiots. They read the warnings on the how-to guides, and still try and play online, still leave their XBL online, still leave the Ethernet connected. Idiots deserve to lose their console.

The real funny thing, is any normal "pirate" is laughing this off, this does not hurt the pirates, just the idiots who know how to mount ISOs and try and play them online. Sad really, the only reason they make this public is to deter people from pirating. This will stop a very very small amount of people, around 0.2% if not less of pirates. Some pirates even go as far as to get a arcade for pirating, etc. Oh and this is funny, with custom firmware none of those features gets locked, and can be unlocked easily. Except XBL but that is run of the SIN of the console so meh.

Agreed, since i don't have a 360 i don't know about this, but if i was a game pirate and i owned a 360, that's the 1st thing i would check, and i've modded before, i did it to my PS1 and PS2 to play imported J-games, and to my PSP to dump my purchased UMDs on the Flash Card, and i always check the how-to's the warnings, etc. and i never had any issues...



drpunk on 09 November 2009

Are there really that many modders stupid enough to go online with their modded 360?

It sounds more like scare stories to stop people from modding their xbox.

If I was a modder I'd have 2 360s. One to play dodgy games on, the other to play proper games online with.



twesterm on 09 November 2009
jneul said:
actually they have done it to modified 360's as well (upgraded hdd's), what a slap in the face for people who midified their console to have a better hdd in.
although this will help kill off piracy, i can't but help fell that some innocent people have suffered because of this move

Do you have proof of this?  I haven't actually heard of that.

If you cannot provide proof or anything to back you up, then please stop it with comments like this:

jneul said:

Yes if you are innocent and are not a pirate and have experienced this issue, please buy a ps3 you do not get banned for upgrading your hard drive!

 



 

halogamer1989 on 09 November 2009

Yessss. Muh hah haha haa.



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V-r0cK on 09 November 2009

if you get a banned 360, just trade it in and get a new one... but that would be kind of wrong as well lol



mike_intellivision on 09 November 2009

While certainly not in favor of pirates, I wonder to what degree this goes too far.
It also calls into question whether or not games are being bought -- or just a license to use them.

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specialops787 on 09 November 2009

I've been saying that the consoles should do this for awhile. I don't agree with pirating games. If you like the game, buy it, support it so we get more games like it. Even worse when pirates on Wii steal the "core" games. Then we loose the chance to get additional core games because they don't sell.

I agree with bricking the console because of stolen software. THAT IS ILLEGAL. Seeing as they have a way to detect it you're lucky that they're only bricking your console, not suing you.

I don't think that I agree with bricking because of upgrading the HDD though. However, I have the 250GB so I am not worried about space.



specialops787 on 09 November 2009
mike_intellivision said:
While certainly not in favor of pirates, I wonder to what degree this goes too far.
It also calls into question whether or not games are being bought -- or just a license to use them.

Mike from Morgantown

I think they are entitled to go farther than this. You are STEALING content. They could just detect it and and send the FBI to your house instead. That applies only to stolen software, not the HDD thing.



ironman on 09 November 2009
jneul said:

Yes if you are innocent and are not a pirate and have experienced this issue, please buy a ps3 you do not get banned for upgrading your hard drive!

Oh god, does it ever stop? two thread now, and in both, nothing but anti 360 propaganda... seriously, we get it, you have an irrational hate for the 360. Enough already.

On topic...OMFG this is hilariouse. 

Pirate: Haha, look, I just got a copy of MWF2 for FREE!!!

MS: No you didn't, you just lost all the good stuff on your 360...loser.



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