Ive just been banned from live!!

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jamief said:
Quite easy. Your console has a unique hardware identifier (a GUID or UUID).

New game discs will include a few megabytes worth of banned Ids - when the game launches it will check your hardware Id against the banned list, and if yours is on the list it'll disable various features of the console.
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Have you got any proof of this as I can't see it myself. Can't see it working!
 
someone on a nfo forum that i wont mention here had his unmodded console banned and he posted this

UPDATE ON MY BANNED LEGIT/UNMODDED CONSOLE

Got mine back today after they banned my legit console (and I sent it in),

They have apologised repeatedly and given me :
5000 m$p, a new controller, 3 reasonably new games, and 1 years subscription to xbox live.
(Oh and a new/refurb console luckily dated June 09 ... but I am returning it to them to have mine sent back to me ...
I want my new one back, not some ****ty refurb bull****)
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might be worth contacting them and see what you can get for your trouble
 
Do MS make all the discs for games when they go gold? As otherwise I don't se how that putting the information on the disc would work as it could potentially leave it open to 3rd parties changing/seeing the data. I think game/system updates via live is most likely how these databases work :)
 
Langlest said:
someone on a nfo forum that i wont mention here had his unmodded console banned and he posted this



might be worth contacting them and see what you can get for your trouble
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So it's actually happening then? How will this affect microsoft confidently stating that only violations of terms have resulted in bans so far.

And I can see why the guy got the Hump, about receiving a refurb back. I hate it even when you get a refurb back from something that's gone defective in the first 6 months. If I wanted second hand parts I would have paid second hand price.
 
Red and White said:
arent they just banning modded consoles from accessing live? whats the point in banning consoles from live via new games, if they never go on live anyway?
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Just because they don't go on now, doesn't mean that they won't in the future.

They're forward planning.
 
Slyman2k4 said:
I thought it was working parts taken from other defective units like other electronics. I've been told apple do this.
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Well when mine came back from RROD it stated new motherboard and new dvdrom on the fix sheet. Just the shell was the same.
 
Bonjour said:
I've not been on live for a bit. I might power up the beast tonight out of curiosity.
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Why are you sailing the high seas?

Although I must admit, I did fire mine up last night to check if I had been banned in error (I have owned my elite since new and it's unflashed) before anyone starts. :p
 
i could not help myself but LOLoutLoud when my brother got banned also. You would swear by the outcry of prepuescent teenagers all around the country that they were served a great misjustice. Fact is, your breached the Terms of Argreement that microsoft publish for their product. You got punished. LOL
go ahead and flame me brick-box fan boys:p
 
PiKe said:
Well when mine came back from RROD it stated new motherboard and new dvdrom on the fix sheet. Just the shell was the same.
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Erm is that more likely just to mean what they had to replace rather than the fact it was brand new? ;)

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Surely another reason they keep the Gamertags alived for banned people to reuse on a new console is so that they are technically then 'flagged' as pirates, and easy to spot if they do it again. Rather than them buying a new console, creating a new Gamertag and starting all over.

The other thing I'd say to people moaning about the costs of games, specifically that guy who was on the BBC News website and whinging. Why not just rent them? That's what I do, I have a subscription which costs me like £13 a month or something to rent games. It's what I do now for anything that I'm not sure is a huge release that I want to buy.
 
I really don't see what all the fuss is about.

MS haven't bricked anyones console and they can still play games. All they've said is you're not bringing that thing and those uncontrolled versions of games onto our closed network. Seems fair enough.
 
jamief said:
Quite easy. Your console has a unique hardware identifier (a GUID or UUID).

New game discs will include a few megabytes worth of banned Ids - when the game launches it will check your hardware Id against the banned list, and if yours is on the list it'll disable various features of the console.
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not directly relevant here but I believe Bluray has the same feature where disks can contain lists of players to restrict/disable.
 
Kyle009 said:
Have you got any proof of this as I can't see it myself. Can't see it working!
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google is your friend on this one as the site with the info is a no no here

here is a taster this is one console ID off the last list produced from the 08 update

01174CF***

but apparently MS new aim is to update the list with console ID's that have not been logged as banned yet but have been "caught on live" and then to add this to future game releases so pulling the plug offers no defence

MS will simply do this in the console update (or Wave update) on the disc

So say you have a modded console and have taken it off live to avoid the ban even though unknown by yourself MS have flagged you. Then you continue to play games offline on your flagged machine the next update which will be included on later releases will include a list with your console ID on it which will then ban your console.
 
jamief said:
Quite easy. Your console has a unique hardware identifier (a GUID or UUID).

New game discs will include a few megabytes worth of banned Ids - when the game launches it will check your hardware Id against the banned list, and if yours is on the list it'll disable various features of the console.
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lol i have never heard such an outrageous statement - proof please?
 
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