Microsoft has NO right whatsoever to personally send disabling software and destroy hardware on a 360 that a user has brought!
Microsoft has NO business banning modded systems until it can prove that those modded systems are being used for pirating!
Microsoft needs to be SUED.

Microsoft really didn't think this out. Once they do this the modder will just pawn their system to GAMESTOP since it's useless now, and the person who buys it from there will be completely outraged that their console no longer works!

To be honest, I'm surprised people aren't suing over this, its actually violates property rights regardless of any EULA agreement. Because they paid for ownership and didn't "Lease" the console, the owner legally has the right to modify any property belonging to them. Which does in fact cover modifying software on a console, just like it does when modifying a PC.

Microsoft can however legally ban the user's static IP address from using their online services, but does not have the legal standing to infringe upon the user's rights to use the console- excluding cases of experiments like alpha/beta tests, in which case a separate console, owned by Microsoft and not the user, is still required for them to legally take away those rights.

retard who think they're cool for getting pirated games = they deserved it and ima lul forever

I <3 MS ban waves

As long as all the physical parts are fine, someone will find a way to hack them to work again.

So what about us pirates that buy the game, return it/trade it in, and then go download a copy? How have we stolen from the companies?

I still buy games. Hell, most of the games I pirate, I've bought CE of them. So I spent MORE than many other legit gamers. But because I modded my 360 so I can play foreign games, I'm a villain?

MS has the right to ban us, because we did break our "agreement" with them by modding the systems. But they should seriously take a look at why so many people are willing to take that risk and mod their systems. It's not basement dwelling nefarious types, as they'd have us think so often. It's average, everyday people, that are the true faces of the modding community.

Because I have a lovely summer-home in Antarctica I think you might be interested in.

if i have to work to buy games they should too

unless they banned thoose who manualy increased their hard drive sizes instead of accepting the highway robbery that is the official drives. if so then fuck you MS