Pirates are rejoicing at the news that the new “slim” Xbox 360 has been cracked to run pirate copies, or “backups” as they are disingenuously called.
There is apparent video proof of the accomplishment:
The success of pirates in hacking the Xbox 360 is in stark contrast to the as yet unhacked and piracy-free PS3, which has already caused countless cocksure crackers to give up after predicting easy victory.
Meanwhile the suspicion that Microsoft’s pitiful technical anti-piracy measures are all part of a deliberate ploy to capture pirate market share continue – sheer ineptitude or apathy are however all too plausible alternative explanations in the case of the Xbox 360 however.
It’s not like I hate what they are doing, it’s just that they have enough time to crack game consoles, but they don’t have the time to get a job(honest work) to earn money to buy what they want. Lazy Bastards…
I GUESS US RRoD 360 FAGS SURE GOT TOLD.
Mysterious Voice: “That’s not funny. Besides don’t feed the troll. Even I know that much.”
You’re a troll yourself! How come you never leave me alone?!
Mysterious Voice: “Because you never learn. As for the topic, so what. It’s not a PS3, therefore the information’s worthless. If you can get by Microsoft’s punishment for hackers, then we’ll talk…not that anyone would willingly play an Failbox 360.”
Did this crack the region lock
Oh please say it cracked the region lock..
Actually, in almost all cases, backups are what is being played on these systems, NOT pirated copies.
Backup copies are being played so that people can have the confidence to say “I’ve still got my original disc if the copy gets hosed for some reason!”
The irony is for the same effort they put in detecting modded xboxes they could implement a scheme along the same lines as windows activation to allow hd backups but still prevent casual copying.
1. make em buy a console
2. let the console get hacked
3. ban them from xlive to get them to buy a new console
4. ???
5. Profit
No.
5. Loss.
How many fucking times? MICROSOFT/SONY/WII SELL THEIR CONSOLES AT A LOSS.
Let’s make this even simpler.
Microsoft lose money for each console sold.
Microsoft gain money for each game sold.
Pirates buy consoles and not games.
Therefore Microsoft are losing money from piracy.
WRONG
M$ does NOT lose money from selling consoles.
They calculated that console sales would probably not be enough to get the money back in, that they used to develop the Xbox360, if every person willing to buy one only bought one.
In order to negate that they “generate” more console sales with the banning.
Each sold Xbox360 makes the loss smaller.