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Lastgengamer on 18 November 2009

http://www.incgamers.com/News/19698/banned-xbox-live-users-class-action-investigation

A potential Class Action Lawsuit against Microsoft following the recent spate of Xbox Live bannings has appeared encouraging banned users to take part. 

The Abington IP, a boutique law firm specialising in consumer class actions,  posted a form on their site for disgruntled Xbox 360 users who were banned from the service to post their details and take part in a Class Action Lawsuit against Microsoft if they were not "refunded a prorated sum for the time left on your subscription". The potential action has arisen following Microsoft's  comments reiterating their ban policy and the recent mass bannings from Xbox LIVE which occurred  to discourage piracy of 360 titles and modded consoles. The explanation on the Abington site reads: 

As has been reported widely in the media, tens of thousands of Xbox owners have had their modified Xbox consoles banned from Microsoft's online gaming service Xbox Live. Although modification of Xbox consoles is against the terms of use for Xbox/Xbox Live, Microsoft "conveniently" timed the Xbox console ban to occur just after the release of the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 game and less than two months after the release of the very popular Halo 3: ODST game. This "convenient" timing may have resulted in more Xbox Live subscription revenues for Microsoft than it would have generated had these Xbox console bans taken place at some time before the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Halo 3: ODST. Additionally, sales of both Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (published by Activision) and Halo 3: ODST (published by Microsoft Game Studios) would likely have been greatly diminished had the Xbox console ban occurred prior to the release of these games.

The logic seems slightly flawed in the explanation but it's being suggested that Microsoft wanted to squeeze a couple more months of subscriptions from known offenders before the bannings. Make of it what you will. Thanks to Blackbeard for the tip.

 

Will this actuality hold up?



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ultima on 18 November 2009

That seems like a very weak argument to me. No way they're going to win this.



           

ironman on 18 November 2009

WTF, this had better not go through. I believe part of the agreement to live is that you will get banned without a refund if you mod your console. Get a life pirates, you are only showing your true colors.



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ROBOTECHHEAVEN on 18 November 2009

they will lose this battle very quickly against m$



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ajaghvajagh on 18 November 2009

Highly doubt it'll work against MS



 

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scat398 on 18 November 2009

This seems like a pretty foolish move. I'm guessing they'll review the stories and realize they don't have a case.



themanwithnoname on 18 November 2009

There's no way they're going to prove that, and no, tens of thousands of users wouldn't have affected the games sales anyway.



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disolitude on 18 November 2009

I dont know a single xbl account that was banned. Consoles get banned...not accounts.



drudaddy on 18 November 2009

LOL, they never give up.



damndl0ser on 18 November 2009

I don't think this is probably a good idea. I wouldn't want microsoft knowing my information if I had been hacking their system. ESP..... if I had downloaded any illegal stuff off of a torrent. That would only make things easier to turn around and sew you.



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