XBOX live kills mods
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It's like if Chrysler would disable cars for people who hacked their GPS system so they can use it while moving.
Well my son's best friend owns an audio shop here locally. I can tell you as a matter of fact that if you try to change the factory radio in many GM models now, that the OnStar and GPS system is totally inactive! So in a sense if you change out some of the equipment they do deactivate other portions of the system, because they do not want you changing that factory radio.
Took me a while to get to this thread.
Here's my take.
Billy has the right to try to protect his empire. (Why he's worried about the couple of bucks, I don't know, and it isn't really the point.) The point is, if the kids that are hacking their systems are getting shut down by Billy's Game Gestapo, they have to learn to be better hackers. That's what Gates did. He didn't have the internet to teach him how to hack something. He invented the internet. (So to speak) and he's 2 steps ahead of the hackers.
Just my
Here's my take.
Billy has the right to try to protect his empire. (Why he's worried about the couple of bucks, I don't know, and it isn't really the point.) The point is, if the kids that are hacking their systems are getting shut down by Billy's Game Gestapo, they have to learn to be better hackers. That's what Gates did. He didn't have the internet to teach him how to hack something. He invented the internet. (So to speak) and he's 2 steps ahead of the hackers.
Just my
I was about to post the exact same thing. combating hackers only makes them better hackers as they work to get around the latest roadblocks. And there's a good chance that a lot of those hackers will grow up to be good consumers (i.e. NOT software pirates) and possibly the Bill Gates for the next generation.
However, I would hardly call the affected XBox users "hackers" It's more like a couple of actual hackers who figured it all out, then a bunch of leeching pirates who load their software to play pirated games.
However, I would hardly call the affected XBox users "hackers" It's more like a couple of actual hackers who figured it all out, then a bunch of leeching pirates who load their software to play pirated games.
See ya! :hw:
Maybe that will teach you not to play a game before the release date. :seeya:
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Never.
copies for backups and moving games between two houses.
If they want to crack down on piracy go after those illegally sharing the iso's, but holding kids hostage for protecting their hard earned game money by making backups is just plain wrong.
Not a problem man. I'm a indie developer myself still working hard on my game so I'm not one of the big boys but if someone was to pirate my game when it comes out that's completely lost revenue and time wasted. So I kinda know what the big boys would feel like albeit on a smaller scale but still.
See now you still can play your Xbox and pirated games just sans Xbox LIVE. But see you have no right to complain about any of this. And yes I'm talking to the OP here. When you signed up for Xbox LIVE even for your silver account (if it isn't a gold account) you agreed to the ridiculously long TOS (Terms of Service) in there you agreed to NOT mod your console and to NOT pirate games or run any modified software etc.
Technically that is a binding legal agreement which you broke. You have absolutely no recourse and now your going to sell your console to someone else who now wont be able to connect to LIVE. Let me guess, like most of you hackers who are selling consoles to Gamestop's etc, your not going to tell them either are you?
year.
WFT?
...actually now i will pick up a cheapo banned xbox for a good deal as a second box rather than buy new.
Besides paying for live for those times im at my house with satellite internet was a waste anyway. (plus i have small kids, live was really inappropriate for them)
M$ is actually saving me money.
WFT?
...actually now i will pick up a cheapo banned xbox for a good deal as a second box rather than buy new.
Besides paying for live for those times im at my house with satellite internet was a waste anyway. (plus i have small kids, live was really inappropriate for them)
M$ is actually saving me money.
I was just saying you seemed to have this "Holier than thou" attitude towards MS in all of your posts. If you don't need LIVE then go about your business pirating games I'm sorry but I refuse to believe your really modding just to play your backups, and I don't think anyone else here does either, it's the oldest lie in the book regarding modded console's, emulators, etc.
You would be dead wrong then. When I modded my original Xbox it was so that I could play backups. When I modded my Wii it was so that I could play DVDs on it. Modding isn't just for pirating. Maybe you should ASSume less.
All this talk about 'killing mods' is making me nervous... :icon_eek:
Stupid joke, I know... as you were.
Stupid joke, I know... as you were.
Through "Fair Use" people should be allowed to make back-ups of their personal property.
MS doesn't have proof of how everybody is using/misusing the consoles. To permanently disable the consoles sounds extreme and rather 1984ish.
I'm not pretending that piracy (yarp) isn't a major problem, I know it is, but it's kind of like MS is shooting someone that's standing outside their house because they look like they are going to come inside to rob them.
PS
Xan isn't anti MS specifically. He's anti establishment. An equal opportunity skeptic. Note his anti Mac threads too.
I drive the speed limit. I can get fired if I get a ticket.
It' okay, I'll take over. On second thought....
^^ Said the guy who jailbreaks his iPhone.:jj:
Not the same thing. I am not STEALING anything. I purchase ALL of my app's through Apple or through Cydia/Rock. BIG DIFFERENCE.