Wanted: pissed off XBox modders
p2pnet news view P2P | Games:- A Texas law firm hopes some XBox modders may want to express their discontent with Microsoft in the form of a class action.
Steve and the Boyz nailed hundreds of thousands of Xbox Live enthusiasts for modding their consoles.
Or as Spong summed it up when the news broke, Xbox Live Gamer Culling Season Starts.
Now AbingtonIP firm is launching a class-action suit against Microsoft over the ban, says TG Daily.
“Although modification of Xbox consoles is arguably against the terms of use for Xbox/Xbox Live, Microsoft ‘conveniently’ timed the Xbox console ban to coincide with the release of the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 game and less than two months after the release of the very popular Halo 3: ODST game,” the story has the firm saying.
Microsoft also “misapplied the ban, locking out users who had modified their Xboxes for reasons other than piracy,” as well as “obtaining information from Xbox consoles without the permission of the owner, it claims,” it says, adding the firm is recruiting, “looking for people who have had their Xbox banned from Xbox Live and who haven’t been given a refund for their remaining subscription”.
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Xbox Live enthusiasts – Microsoft `Xbox Live banning spree`, November 11, 2009
Spong - Xbox Live Gamer Culling Season Starts, November 11, 2009
TG Daily - Xbox modders unite in class action suit, November 20, 2009
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November 22nd, 2009 at 9:08 pm
does this mean when my ps3 updates they can see the 45 movies on my hard drive?.DOH!
November 22nd, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Whiners unite! Seriously, if you’re going to give a real attempt at a lawsuit don’t go using the “convenient timing” excuse as your primary argument.
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:27 am
They knew the risks when they got the mod chip.
suck it up whiners
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:48 am
When a customer purchases a XBox, since he/she paid money to gain owner status of that system, that customer has the right to smash it with a sledgehammer. That said, the customer has the right to modify anything on the system since they paid money from their own pocket to get it. Microsoft’s version of DRM on a system the customer rightfully paid for. Sound familiar? Oh yeah! The music labels did the same thing on music downloads!
November 24th, 2009 at 1:43 am
Here’s what I don’t get: Whether they mod their console or not, everyone who wants to subscribe to XBox Live has to pay the same monthly fee (about $50 a year if I’m not mistaken). An estimated 600,000 consoles have been banned from the service, and since the majority of those users probably cancelled their subscription as a result (rather than purchasing an unmodded console), that means Micro$oft have just cost themselves an annual revenue stream of nearly $30 million—-not including the revenue lost from blocking access to the Marketplace.
Way to go, idiots.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
RW
“When a customer purchases a XBox, since he/she paid money to gain owner status of that system”
That is correct. And they can still play all the games they want. They just can’t play on XBOX Live, which is separate from the XBOX itself.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
RW
“DRM on a system the customer rightfully paid for”
They can still use the system they bought. Last I looked, XBOX live is purchased separately from the XBox.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:30 am
RW
“a system the customer rightfully paid forâ
The system was rightly paid for. But were the games the system was modded to play also rightly paid for or were they stolen.
January 11th, 2010 at 1:39 am
wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh XBox’s are made so cheap and know people who’ve been suckers and bought 3-5 of them since they’ve been out. u have to open it and mess around to try n fix it.
March 6th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Re RW: “Micro$oft have just cost themselves an annual revenue stream of nearly $30 million ”
Yup. Apparently corporate greed has gotten so short sighted that can’t even see their own noses, which they have now cut off to spite their face.
Darwin Award.