http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33866696/ns/technology_and_science-games/  
 
Fantastic. Screw the cheaters/hackers. 

LOL!

LAWL  Stupid pirates.

"  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33866696/ns/technology_and_science-games/   Was this hard? "

Didn't realise this forum didn't automatically pass URLs into links. 
 
Discussion back on topic now.

Wow didn't know there were so many pirates on consoles. 

owned 

That is 400,000 more then i expected of any game. Just astounding!

Wow. That's a lot of smug pirates who said Microsoft was all talk a week ago.

" Wow didn't know there were so many pirates on consoles.  "

Very nice. But, wow, that is 1/20 of Xbox Live users practically. 1 million fucking people. Damn, well, cheating never prevails.

Hahahah, tools.

1,000,000 x $10/month = $10,000,000/month MS just deprived themselves of. 
 
They're taking piracy seriously, do you believe it now?

1,000,000 x $10/month = $10,000,000/month MS just deprived themselves of.  They're taking piracy seriously, do you believe it now?

That's about as funny as when StripClubDJ had his erroneous Gamerscore reset to zero. Anyone remember that or is that just me?

Hopefully this doesn't affect too many people who bought their consoles second-handedly though legitimate means. Otherwise, a very bold move from Microsoft and hopefully it will stop many people from pirating games again.

" owned  "

" That's about as funny as when StripClubDJ had his erroneous Gamerscore reset to zero. Anyone remember that or is that just me? "

Good.  Fuck pirates.

ha that is great. one million people is a lot of consoles. $300 (average of the consoles) * 1,000,000= $300,000,000  + DLC  of money. that is a lot of people still. i kind of hope that people still pirate just so people will stop making PC piracy so bad. piracy is bad but  360 is even worse seeing as it is a console.

Hilarious news. Glad to hear it, it gave me a good laugh.

HOLY SHIT
 
1 million users......god damn
 
I wasn't aware that 360 piracy was that widespread. like that is insane to think of 1 million useless 360's possibly being sold to stores...or whatever...but damn, i really didnt think there were that many 360 pirates

apparently, this is a possible source for the reported numbers... which isn't super-reliable.

" ha that is great. one million people is a lot of consoles. $300 (average of the consoles) * 1,000,000= $300,000,000  + DLC  of money. that is a lot of people still. i kind of hope that people still pirate just so people will stop making PC piracy so bad. piracy is bad but  360 is even worse seeing as it is a console. "

justice.

My general manager was one of the ones who got his console banned. To clear one thing up, this isn't a ban of the Gamertag but a ban on the console itself, if Microsoft suspects its been modded to play pirated games. In my boss's case, his 360 broke. He sent it in for repair, and about three weeks after they go it they informed him that he was in fact going to have that console banned from Live. Granted, I believe they're sending it back to him (its his property, and technically they can't prove with just the hardware he's actually pirated anything) so he could just keep playing stolen games, just not online with that console.

" Hey, I'm not lobbying for pirates or anything--piracy is a problem--but to call this justice is a laugh. The failure rate of the 360 had been so bad for years that it's likely EVERY SINGLE ONE of those pirates had multiple systems die on them, or their system fuck up some games they spent $60 for. Or maybe, like me, they've had 4 recharge kits die after about 2 months of normal use. Or they spent $100 on a harddrive without enough storage only to have to buy another for 100 in a year's time, or $100 on a simple wireless receiver. The list goes on and on. I hear big companies complain about piracy and preach about digital download only to release Games On Demand games for MORE than I can buy them in the store for new (many games are 30 online, but only 20 new at retail).Like I said, I don't advocate piracy, and don't pirate anything myself, but it's funny to read gamers cheer for big game companies as they're getting fucked in the ass themselves. "

did they get refunds? 
 
lmao.  
 
This is why PSN is free folks. 

" 1,000,000 x $10/month = $10,000,000/month MS just deprived themselves of.  They're taking piracy seriously, do you believe it now? "

i kind of hope that people still pirate just so people will stop making PC piracy so bad. piracy is bad but  360 is even worse seeing as it is a console.

" @Fbomb:  I never said those gripes justify piracy.  Gaming is not a necessity for survival so it's not like they were stealing bread and water.  The main point was that it's bizarre for me to see gamers root for this as justice. "

"
This is the best. lol 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_10000000/newsid_10002900/10002915.stm     "

" @iam3green said:

i kind of hope that people still pirate just so people will stop making PC piracy so bad. piracy is bad but  360 is even worse seeing as it is a console.

As bad as it is, PC piracy is far worse.  Proportionally and sales wise.  A PC game will sell less, and have a higher percentage of pirates.  Finally, MS can do something about piracy on 360, as they probably just chopped off 90% of the pirate population, forcing them to pay more money to MS (at least) to even play games. "

" @Webby: Hahaha. OH I love it. He complains about getting, says he doesn't know when then at the end freely admits he paid money to get it chipped and pirated about 40 games. Oh man. "

Well... online anyway. A pirate is still able to play all of the offline games they want. It's a partial victory, anyway.

" @Fbomb said:

Well... online anyway. A pirate is still able to play all of the offline games they want. It's a partial victory, anyway.

Yea I guess that's true, if they're going to revoke DRM, not allow connection to Live, and not allow HDD installs, why not just disable the whole thing? "

" @Webby said:

"
This is the best. lol 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_10000000/newsid_10002900/10002915.stm     "

Haha, nice link... seriously, this guy steals thousands in video games and decides to play the victim?? "

What i find even more amazing is that this was headline news in the metro newspaper 

I knew at least one of the people effected by this.  The unapologetic way in which they pirate games...all I have to say is FUCK YEAH!

" @SonicFire said:

" @Webby said:

"
This is the best. lol 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_10000000/newsid_10002900/10002915.stm     "

Haha, nice link... seriously, this guy steals thousands in video games and decides to play the victim?? "

WOW.....This guys a joke. Just because there are soo many good games coming out doesn't mean that you must play them all....if you can't afford to play them all, your out of fucking luck...   My friends and I exchange games alot. Its a great way to play most of the games out there, but I still end up spending alot on XBOX related shit "

" did they get refunds?  lmao.   This is why PSN is free folks.  "

They will simply find another way to leech off of Microsoft.