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I was at GameStop the other day and listened to a customer's questions about Microsoft's banning of modded XBox 360s. The worker tried to explain that this banning was for those people that hacked their XBox 360. The customer was worried that if her child downloaded any kind of content through the XBox 360 that this might constitute a reason for a banning for her son's system. She was confused, so she decided to purchase a PS3 ...

So by now we have all heard that Microsoft has recently been banning consoles from connecting to the Xbox Live Service for violating its terms of service. In Microsofts efforts to combat piracy, the banhammer has cracked as many as 1,000,000 users. I think we can effectively call this a ban nuking.

With many warnings leading up to the bans, by Major ...

What does this mean for you and what can you do about it?
Firstly, and most obviously, you cannot connect to Xbox Live on this console any more. This means no more game updates (aka title updates), XBLA games, marketplace content, netflix/sky player and so on. There is no way around this, all online capabilities are now disabled PERMANENTLY.

In all likelihood, your gamertag has NOT BEEN BANNED. When your gamertag gets ...

It looks like MS is doing some last minute changes to increase sales of their console. Yeah I know alot of people pirate games, and been doing it for a long time. But this isn't about them, well at least mostly. MS is banning consoles left and right the second they connect to Live. They are saying its because people are playing pirated games but its funny ...