Modded 360s Flood Craigslist After Mass Banning

[_zuul]

who would buy them?

no XBL, no achievements, which are btw, the only reason people play the 360

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[LeonLethality]

"a few of the bastards"

Wow, way to blindly attack modders. Godforbid someone mods an Xbox to play homebrew or games from oversees.

I'm pretty sure the context of that sentence made it rather clear that by "bastards" I was referring to pirates. Who I have absolutely no sympathy for.

HEY those pirate invaded towns stole booty and.. oh wait nevermind wrong pirates...

OT: I wouldn't buy a second hand console and this is one of the reasons I don't modded and no warranty... but good job microsoft you wielded the banhammer well

 

[Amnestic]

"a few of the bastards"

Wow, way to blindly attack modders. Godforbid someone mods an Xbox to play homebrew or games from oversees.

I'm pretty sure the context of that sentence made it rather clear that by "bastards" I was referring to pirates. Who I have absolutely no sympathy for.

When I read "Though the heavy banhammer might not catch all the pirates," I inferred that you were including innocent modders under the banner of piracy.

Surely that would be "Though the heavy banhammer might not catch only the pirates." rather than "all the pirates"?

 

[Sulu]

I would be scared to do anything to my PS3. I wonder why the 360 pirates gamble so much when they are... were paying for online as well? It seemed very risky to me and it it was!

 

[wooty]

1 Million, wow, so microsoft are finally cracking down, probably a good thing

 

[_zuul]

hasn't it been historically established that

A. pirates are clever and you can never nab 100% of them

and

B.the paranoid and greedy wielders of the corporate banhammer will always hit supposedly innocent consumers.


what is there to argue about?

 

[MGlBlaze]

Despite how I hate XBox Live (Just the stupid need to subscribe to play online; DLC is fine, I view them as little expansion packs. They tried a similar pay-to-play-online scheme on the PC, too. It failed miserably, though, as far as I know.) I have to say, that was a pretty damn good strike on the pirates.

Precision-Guided Banhammer Bombing Run for the win?

 

[Otterpoet]

Hot Damn! FINALLY, a reason to buy a used 360 XD

 

[VanityGirl]

I'm glad that Microsoft is cracking down on the piracy. Even though a few of my buddies had modded consoles and they got banned, I feel like they deserved it. Hell, you deserved to have the whole system bricked. Then again, maybe I'm sore because I pay full price for games. Hehe.

Sucks for someone if they buy a console on craigslist and expect to go online with it.

 

[300lb. Samoan]

AHAHAAA! Oh boy, do I feel good! I bought mine used this weekend just days before the mass banning! Best part is, I bought it from a modder!! Some klutz brought him this brand new pro unit and it was so mint the guy couldn't install the hardware! So he told that guy to go find an older box and sold this one to me! HEHEHEHEEE - SUCKERS! Support the industry!

 

[hansari]

You guys ever wonder how many modded ps3's there are out there?

You never hear much about it, so I can only imagine its not that much of a problem...which is weird given the systems ridiculously large hard drive space...

 

[ItsAPaul]

Wasn't this mass ban just the people that registered Modern Warfare 2 early? So essentially, all of the retard pirates are banned but the competent ones are still going strong, got it.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

"a few of the bastards"

Wow, way to blindly attack modders. Godforbid someone mods an Xbox to play homebrew or games from oversees.

yes but even doing stuff like that is still illegal, in the states you can even go to jail for it. it's called the DMCA and makes modding anything potentially illegal. claim what you want but no matter what both pirates and "legit" modders are doing something illegal

i will make one note and that is i'm glad Funk cropped the screenshot a bit as we're all familiar with his browsing habits [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.153930]

 

[General Ken8]

Wow, that's pretty funny
If you didn't know what craigslist was you'd probably think everyone on there were a bunch of hackers and stuff

 

[cleverlymadeup]

"a few of the bastards"

Wow, way to blindly attack modders. Godforbid someone mods an Xbox to play homebrew or games from oversees.

yes but even doing stuff like that is still illegal, in the states you can even go to jail for it. it's called the DMCA and makes modding anything potentially illegal. claim what you want but no matter what both pirates and "legit" modders are doing something illegal

i will make one note and that is i'm glad Funk cropped the screenshot a bit as we're all familiar with his browsing habits [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.153930]

It is one of those legalities that hurt more people than they should, an anti-piracy method gone too far.

not really as much as the "homebrew" crowd likes to say "oh i got the chip for this reason" 9 times out of 10 they got it so they can pirate games and for no other reason, also the fact that with those chips you can pirate means it's still highly illegal, even if you don't use it

 

[Ancientgamer]

"a few of the bastards"

Wow, way to blindly attack modders. Godforbid someone mods an Xbox to play homebrew or games from oversees.

I'm pretty sure the context of that sentence made it rather clear that by "bastards" I was referring to pirates. Who I have absolutely no sympathy for.

Even so, this is a news article, not an editorial. It's ridiculous to go spouting personal opinions in something that should be rightfully neutral. Journalistic integrity my ass.

 

[Ancientgamer]

"a few of the bastards"

Wow, way to blindly attack modders. Godforbid someone mods an Xbox to play homebrew or games from oversees.

yes but even doing stuff like that is still illegal, in the states you can even go to jail for it. it's called the DMCA and makes modding anything potentially illegal. claim what you want but no matter what both pirates and "legit" modders are doing something illegal

i will make one note and that is i'm glad Funk cropped the screenshot a bit as we're all familiar with his browsing habits [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.153930]

It is one of those legalities that hurt more people than they should, an anti-piracy method gone too far.

not really as much as the "homebrew" crowd likes to say "oh i got the chip for this reason" 9 times out of 10 they got it so they can pirate games and for no other reason, also the fact that with those chips you can pirate means it's still highly illegal, even if you don't use it

Statistics? Oh wait, you have none. You also seem to think the 100,000 (1 out of 10) people who legitimately chip their 360s who've been kicked for no good reason don't matter. You can argue the technical legality sure, but they're most certainly not "Little Bastards". That's stupid, unfair and offensive.

 

[Cryo84R]

There is NO good reason to mod an xbox. Hope they brick their replacement systems too.

 

[UltimatheChosen]

Though I didn't know one could just openly sell modded consoles.

Well, it's not like it'd be illegal. There's no way in hell Congress would pass a law banning people from taking apart their own electronic devices. Unless it can be conclusively proved that console was used for pirated games, of course, but even then...