Banning the box is good because one box can have any number of live accounts. Therefore taking out 1 live account on a box and leaving all the rest is pointless. Also, taking out the only 1 live account on a modified box is pointless because it takes the user about 4 seconds to set up a new one and continue playing pirated games.

Take the box off the Live service and it doesn’t matter how many accounts were on it and how many new ones the user sets up, they still aren’t going to get online with it.

You seem to be getting confused with how it works – “If they faound the bok had modified files on the first xbox account whats to stop them from finding out you the same modified xbox on your new account”. Well, if you use the same modified xbox on a new account, the box is still banned from live, so it makes no difference. That’s why it is more effective to ban the box and not the account.

“After awhile people wouldn’t get X-box’s if its so expensive and your shit will break”. Exactly. You’ll get fed up of buying new XBoxes and just stop modifying them.

The article was about Microsoft being right or wrong in banning the boxes. The answer (in my oppinion) is that they were right, for all of the reasons I listed above. Your counter argument seems to be that they were wrong because it stops people pirating games, but that was their intention in the first place. I’m not saying it isn’t bad for the pirate, of course it is. That was their aim all along, so in fact they were right to do it.

What is indeed (in my opinion) over the line that M$ damages YOUR hardware as if the banning from XBL wasnt enough punishment.

And yes it will generate a bit more of income for them, but what is the reason that the 360 is still on competition in the first place?
Because it can be modified, among other reasons of course but in my opinion the one i just said is the one with most weight.

I got my console banned during this effort as well. Another plus point for MS is that banning sells more consoles, because people will have to go out and buy a new one. However, what’s more likely to happen is that people will go and buy a new console, wait a few months, RROD their banned console so they can claim a new one from the store under the other console’s warranty (you can force 3 red rings by removing the thermal paste from the cpu/gpu). Now they have 2 consoles. They can either sell one to recoup some of the money (not like they haven’t already saved enough on games to cover the new console anyway), or they will mod one and leave the other – that way in the future if one gets banned they can still play legit games online with the other.

Whats next? when finally the natal proyect comes out (if it does come out that is)
if you have cf M$ will disable its functionality of capturing your moves? lol…

Its the long arm of M$ reaching into your home which is a bit over the top.