1. Sign in to live.xbox.com
2. Click Accounts in the My Xbox menu.
3. Do you live in Illinois? If so, skip to step 7.
4. Click Billing Account Information.
5. Change your City, State and Postal Code to Chicago, Illinois, 60652.
6. Click Save.
7. Click Upgrade/Manage Account.
8. Click On in the Automatic Renewal: On text located inside the black box in the upper left.
9. Click Next until they finally give up.
Congratulations! Your Xbox LIVE membership will no longer automatically renew. Now go change your address back if you aren't lucky enough to live in Illinois.
(Props to the original woot.com thread where this was discovered, the reddit thread where it was made popular, and the Something Awful thread that pointed me to the reddit thread.)
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