Comments on: Hacked 360s get some more Live safety

By: chris

chris — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:48:48 +0000

Get a fucking dictionary SpartanX360

By: kobejonez

kobejonez — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:23:28 +0000

I think you’d find they would. It would only take one major publish to do it and the rest would follow suit.

By: kobejonez

kobejonez — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:18:00 +0000

¬_¬

By: Lone goat

Lone goat — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:15:41 +0000

no but that does make you a asshole

By: BTex

BTex — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:48:47 +0000

and I’m 39 and still mod. just cause I can afford it doesn’t mean I want to waste money on games that won’t be used in a few months.

By: BTex

BTex — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:47:01 +0000

Oh you should definitely mod that PSP.
It’s awesome.

By: BTex

BTex — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:41:37 +0000

Would have been funny if true. But it’s not. Even if you’re banned from LIve all the burned copies will still work.

By: BTex

BTex — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:34:44 +0000

or they just don’t have access to warez and claim to have “morals”.

By: BTex

BTex — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:33:07 +0000

No they wouldn’t. They don’t pass the increased revenue down to the consumer. LOL. What planet are you from?

By: SpartanX360

SpartanX360 — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:23:12 +0000

For all dumbass pirates;

Pls get a job if u cant afford games or begone!

By: kobejonez

kobejonez — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:04:15 +0000

“What really disappoints me is the fact that c4eva or whatever his name is, is the bad guy” Well no he doesn’t force people to aquire copies of games or for that matter even apply the mod. It could be argued that he is working for the homebrew scene which has nothing to do with playing dodgy copies CoD 3.

By: kobejonez

kobejonez — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:56:46 +0000

Well I think its a Valid and worthy news article, Most people are aware of the ability to mod consoles specifically for running copies anyway.
Since I’ve been at Xboxic its been fairly clear that Curry and crew are opposed to modding and have never ever condoned it in anyway to the best of my knowledge. To deny its existance and ignore the story would be negligant and I feel the choices made to run story were good. The article may alert people to the mods but it also quite clearly expresses the futility in it.

By: NX

NX — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:47:19 +0000

Exactly, same here, I totally agree

By: NX

NX — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:45:00 +0000

Idiot that you are!

You wanna know how many music I download? I download everything I like, everything, my whole music collection is downloaded, more than 40GB of music! (I do have some original cd’s that I bought)

“BUT WAIT, Isn’t that illegal NX?”
I am not doing anything illegal. On the contrary, It is fucking LEGAL to download music, at least, here in The Netherlands!

But, my X360 is not hacked or updated with any kind of firmware. All my X360 games (8 games) are originals which I paid for. Everyday I enjoy the fact I can go on LIVE and I do not support game copies or hacked X360’s!

By: kobejonez

kobejonez — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:43:53 +0000

Bill Gates takes his share sure, but when you buy games its the devlopers you are supporting not M$, and if people bought more games and didn’t run copies and hacked boxes games would be cheaper as profit margins would be higher.

By: Agent Balti

Agent Balti — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:44:03 +0000

I don’t think that’s what he’s saying at all. He’s saying that if prices were lowered, the need to ’steal’ would be lessened, not that because it’s pricey it’s more kudos to steal it.

By: scython

scython — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:29:08 +0000

If games would be cheaper ?? So you are saying if something costs too much, then its OK to steal it?

By: BrutusNL

BrutusNL — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:42:37 +0000

@Redeyes: Agreed! When I was around 17-20 years old and student, I got me a PS One and had it modded and played tons of copied games which I got from a ’supplier’ for $5. Now that I’ve aged to 35 I got me a PSP and PS3 (okay, this is an Xbox site, but don’t blame me for that, haha) and didn’t mod those. First reason is I don’t feel like risking to brick those and flush a lot of cash. Secondly, I have a decent job now and fortunatelly make enough money to buy original games and finally, not to sound like a sissy, I feel obliged (maybe because of the job/money I have) to pay developer for their effort. So yes, I agree it is very likely agerelated.

By: Luffy

Luffy — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:30:55 +0000

Sorry, don’t agree there. If games would be cheaper, piracy would become lesser. Music is a great example, since paid downloads you can choose the better numbers from an album and keep the costs low. If games would be cheaper downloads would be lower too. The offering would be the same, but less downloading.

I know enough adults who use pirated dvd’s/games and windows, but only the interrest into downloading music became less.

By: bullisthename

bullisthename — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:21:08 +0000

DOES IT NOT STATE IN BRITISH LAW THAT YOU CAN LEGALLY MAKE 1 COPY OF ANY ORIGINAL SO THAT YOU CAN PROTECT THE COPY. IS BILL GATES NOT VIALATING YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS.

By: bullisthename

bullisthename — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:18:11 +0000

for the money bill gates has already, xbox should be free, games should be cheaper. if you let people use xbox live then they have to pay for that.

By: Redeyes

Redeyes — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:19:26 +0000

From my experience most piracy tends to be age related. After people get real jobs, real houses, and have real money in the bank (and pay real taxes, which is the time most liberals start to turn in to republicans) and can lose it all by one stupid act, interest in piracy tends to wane.

By: Agent Balti

Agent Balti — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:02:27 +0000

…and of course piracy was never around before Microsoft…never!

By: Piotr

Piotr — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:16:07 +0000

F**k the greedy miscrosoft Pigs. As long as they exist, there will ALWAYS be piracy. And the pirates ALWAYS win.

Freedom!

By: wakeboardnmoto

wakeboardnmoto — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:21:23 +0000

i hack psps but not 360’s thats too risky havin the posibility of bein banned via XBL

By: Lone Goat

Lone Goat — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:40:18 +0000

as i’ve said before: I rarely download mp3s if i like them i buy there cd.. if i don’t i delete the mp3.

By: prodigy man

prodigy man — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:13:21 +0000

i wish i had a hack, i waste so much money

By: prodigy man

prodigy man — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:11:53 +0000

you suck be quiet

By: Yoshima 31ite

Yoshima 31ite — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:14:56 +0000

you need to be more technical with your questions dumb ass. downloading music doesn’t necesarilly mean your pirating like your stupid ass. there’s multiple sites that you can pay to download songs, i-tunes for starters.

By: Yoshima 31ite

Yoshima 31ite — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:06:01 +0000

xboxic just PWNED YOU CHRIS!!!! lol.

By: 260norml

260norml — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:52:25 +0000

I download music, but I pay for it.

By: scott

scott — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:42:39 +0000

i just want to know this…

how many of you download music?

Hypocrites

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:04:38 +0000

Poor rich guy.

By: Niels Keurentjes

Niels Keurentjes — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:12:56 +0000

We made some choices in that respect, which is that we report on everything that’s happening in the Xbox world. Reporting, not handing out how-to’s. If 400k 360s get banned, that’s news in our book.

By: Phocas

Phocas — Thu, 31 May 2007 19:46:27 +0000

Exactly, don’t lump everyone into the same class to justify your actions. Most people have respect and live their lives by a code of ethics.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 31 May 2007 19:42:11 +0000

Wow , and now the fanboys come in . Why do I bother ?

By: Worms

Worms — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:15:29 +0000

Having hacked every console I’ve owned in my life (and that’s a lot, all the way back to playing burned PROMs on an Atari 2600) including the Xbox (which I never expected to be able to play on Live with but did play on line with Kai and the other tunnel programs). The 360 I have no desire to. Since I don’t spend much on games (just a $20 a month 2 game subscription to Game Fly keeps me occupied) and want to keep playing on Live I wouldn’t risk it. Look if you are modded and pirating games you have thousands of dollars worth most likely be happy with that and don’t expect to play them on Live.

By: dirty duck

dirty duck — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:41:34 +0000

Well said.

What really disappoints me is the fact that c4eva or whatever his name is, is the bad guy.

This hack was desinged for one thing and thats piracy, thats what makes me hate the guy for releasing it.

The original lot who done the hack robison and the specialist never released it as its only for piracy so i respect them and there work but this c4eva guy no respect at all.

What does make me think ever harder about the subject is that he has no idea what microsoft are actually planning for these idots who actaully flash there drive.

He says himself go onlive at your own risk, well that says to me that he hasnt got a clue what ms are planning

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:31:40 +0000

That should be 15-20% ^_^

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:30:34 +0000

I’m not too worried about this. A lot of people are too scared to open their 360s, and then another 80% don’t know what they’re doing and brick it during the flash process.

The 10% who do get this working though, well… just expect to be banned. Microsoft have shown with the recent bannings that they can (through updates and games) check the console at hardware-level.

I think it’s safe to assume that Halo 3 will ship with an improved version of the beta’s detection methods(if the rumours are true and Halo 3 has some firmware checking mechanisms). And, you just know 90% of 360 owners are going to get this game.

It’ll be funny when little Jimmy (or Tom, in this case) puts it into his drive only to see the banned-from-live screen.