Microsoft banning 1 million Xbox Live users

November 12th, 2009 Posted in Business, Console, Industry, Microsoft, Online, Xbox 360


Information Week suggests that Microsoft has banned over 5% of Xbox Live members because they use modded consoles. Since there are just over 20 million Live members, it means over 1 million accounts have been suspended because they use modded consoles, which makes them play pirated games.

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3 Responses to “Microsoft banning 1 million Xbox Live users”

  1. » Xbox Live hits 2 million concurent users online - DigitalBattle.com Says:

    November 13th, 2009 at 8:46 pm

    [...] Xbox Live’s online membership exceeds 20 million (minus one million), but the real milestone was made earlier yesterday, when a whopping 2 million users were online at [...]



  2. » Banned Xbox 360s flood Craigslist - DigitalBattle.com Says:

    November 13th, 2009 at 8:50 pm

    [...] boy, who’d have expected this: after Microsoft banned and bricked a million Xbox 360s, which were modded to play pirated games, XBox 360 consoles are now appearing on Craigslist all [...]



  3. The Boop Files » Banned Xbox 360s flood Craigslist Says:

    November 14th, 2009 at 5:57 am

    [...] boy, who’d have expected this: after Microsoft banned and bricked a million Xbox 360s, which were modded to play pirated games, XBox 360 consoles are now appearing on Craigslist all [...]



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