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Analysis: Microsoft’s Plan to Ban 360s was Poorly Planned

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

ps3, xbox 360, game, console

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 ...

Insider says MS Plans to Ban 1M Console

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

xbox 360, bans, torrents, console

A conversation with a friend who works for a call center that handles an Xbox 360 account has yielded a disturbing truth: Microsoft has started its annual Xbox Live banning spree and it has disabled 600,000 accounts so far in the US and Canada.

The target of the banning spree are mainly people who have modified their consoles to play pirated games. My trusty source says that they have been given instructions to push for a ...

Eight Tiny Domain Deals for the Holidays

Last year we brought you the 12 Days of Domains promotion and you loved that. This year we’re bring you 8 Tiny Domain Deals – all for under $8 USD.

Microsoft Banning more than just Pirates?

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.

Apple Can Remotely Disable iPhone Apps

According to iPhone Atlas and iPhone hacker-extraordinaire Jonathan Zdziarski, Apple has readied a blacklisting system which allows the company to remotely disable applications on your device. Apparently, the new 2.x firmware contains a URL which points to a page containing a list of “unauthorized” apps — a move which suggests that the device makes occasional [...]

A State of Trance 355 – Armin Van Buuren [asot 355]

Artist: Armin van Buuren
Title Of Album: A State of Trance 355
Year Of Release: 05-06-2008
Label: DI.fm (RadioShow)
Genre: Trance
Quality: MP3 / Joint Stereo
Bitrate: 192 kbit/s / 44.1 Khz
Total Size: 169.05 MB
 
Tracklist:
 
01. The Thrillseekers Feat. Fisher – The Last Time (Original Mix)
02. Andy Moor – Fake Awake (Trance Mix)
03. Armin van Buuren feat. Sharon den Adel – In [...]

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