Microsoft bans 1 million Xbox Live players

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/12/cnet.xbox.live.ban/index.html

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Good for them...it's time the freeloaders stopped costing legit customers $$$

Good for them...it's time the freeloaders stopped costing legit customers $$$

Agreed, if we have to pay for something, then so should they.

We should start getting a flood of users looking for assistance for this any time now.

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3 already.....just kiddin.
But there is a flood at one of the other Forums i volunteer on...

The funniest part is they are all vicious Rants such as "what gives them the right" and "how dare they...we should all band together and sue them" and other such nonsense...
It's downright humorous.

Well until they do this to wii I'm fine. lol Nintendo is getting screw by hackers.

3 already.....just kiddin.
But there is a flood at one of the other Forums i volunteer on...

The funniest part is they are all vicious Rants such as "what gives them the right" and "how dare they...we should all band together and sue them" and other such nonsense...
It's downright humorous.

If they won't pay for legit access I wonder who they expect to pay the lawyers...

 

If they won't pay for legit access I wonder who they expect to pay the lawyers...

 

I thought you could like... download them?


heh, "what gives them the right"... well DUH it's right in the Terms of Service they agreed too. I'd be giving these people a lot of credit if I said they had the legal know-how of a walnut.

My favourite part is they "invent" these "rights" they have, too. My personal favourite was recently- when somebody I know here (in canada, that is) was complaining that something was apparently denying them their "fifth amendment right to free speech"... I found this quite funny, and laughed audibly.

"What's so funny! I've been VIOLATED"! they said.

"your right to free speech is not provided by the fifth amendment to the U.S constitution, it's provided by the charter of rights and freedoms, which falls under the constitution act of 1982, We're in Canada. Not the U.S. we're subject to Canadian Laws and have the rights as such through Canadian Law." I found it most humorous though myself because this very same person was one of those people saying we "have" to vote. and of course they say their voting for so and so, or so and so, but they don't realize that they aren't voting for a person they are voting for a party, and 90% of the time when one party comes to power the "person" who was used as figurehead during the election chooses a new prime minister or even better one of the others has a "change of heart" and realizes that his ideologies actually fit under the premise of the party that is in power. what a coincidence.

heh, sorry what were we talking about?


Anyway, I like this, especially since these people obviously didn't read either their warranties or any related documentation before they massacred their Xboxes DRM chip, or whatever it is.

In an odd parallel, the original NES had a lockout chip; and Nintendo didn't have it on the re-released console. (interesting)

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Heee Hee Hee...

That's priceless, I love it.

That's priceless, I love it.

Right On! 

Microsoft's Major Nelson put it bluntly. "This would also be a good time to remind you that the warranty on an Xbox 360 console is not transferrable and if you purchase a used console that has been previously banned, you will not be able to connect to Xbox Live," he explained. If you're in the market for a used system, in other words, this is a large risk with the seemingly high number of banned consoles hitting the secondary market.

(From the link  by Patio.)

[Malware Removal Specialist]

Hitler gets banned from Xbox Live

Angry German Kid gets banned from Xbox LIVE

Just wait for it, MS will now open an online rehab centre where you can buy your way out and atone your evil ways for the paltry sum of $99.95 just in time for the holiday season and be back online in no time.  

[Malware Removal Specialist]

Rehab For Gamers Now Open

Lol

I think rehab for gamers should be easy- just take away all their games and so forth. see what happens.

Heck, that would make a funny reality show.


"Honey, what are you doing in those overalls?"

"What are you doing with all these popsicle... what the..."

"Can't you see, I'm playing age of empires, I need this for wood. I took your jewelry for gold, and these rocks from outside for stone, and I found this old pizza and I'm using it as food. I'm just in the middle of training a bowman *starts a stopwatch* Hmm, I should also train another axeman, just in case I get tool age rushed *clicks another stopwatch*"