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Re: Microsoft gives users the boot
The other companies can file lawsuits against Microsoft for failing to comply with their wishes, right?

yes

1 failing to protect their intellectual property

2 damage to their profits
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Re: Microsoft gives users the boot
MicroSoft had the choice:

1. Piss off a million people.

2. Cut off dozens of critical business partnerships.

3a. Be sued, then settle and piss off a million people.
3b. Be sued, then pay up to tens of millions of dollars in damages, and then piss off a million people.
3c. Be sued, then pay up to tens of millions of dollars in damages, and then lose dozens of critical business partnerships.

Obviously, the first option is the least severe.

 

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Well, they have their work cut out for them.
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Re: Microsoft gives users the boot
You know what's the worstestest in the "fight against piracy"? That it DOESN'T ****ING WORK, crackers still rape all these DRMs and laugh their asses off. Anyway, the most ridiculous is keeping CD in drive all the time, and that TOO is because of the company's greed. CD is damaging itself in the drive, so yeah, it will cease to work someday, so there are chances you'll buy it again. (HELL I WON'T, gonna just dl from internets, i have the right to do so now). And then again: in the past, I used to make at least two save copies of every damn CD. What now? Now you friggin can't, cause it won't work without a crack. YAY.

And anyway, I as a honest customer, who's ALWAYS buying the games he plays, I, ziame, DON'T GIVE A **** about this whole piracy. NOT.MY.FAULT.WHY.PUNISHING.ME.
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Re: Microsoft gives users the boot
Punishing you because punishing everyone just maybe might get the pirates.

And if they would stop pirating **** in the first place, I could just play my damn games and not worry about this BS.

 

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And if they would stop pirating **** in the first place, I could just play my damn games and not worry about this BS.

Do you really believe that?

 

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Re: Microsoft gives users the boot
The other companies can file lawsuits against Microsoft for failing to comply with their wishes, right?
I'd highly doubt it, since it's not as though MS would be doing anything in breach of contract by not banning these users.  What third-party developers could do, though, is send less exclusivity the 360's way, which would obviously be a Very Bad Thing from MS's standpoint.

 

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It would, considering that there are so many other video game consoles out there. I'm certain Microsoft wants to get a stable foothold on the console industry now, and then let their foothold go to hell like Hotmail.
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http://www.xbconnect.com/

that url seems pertinent to this discussion
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Re: Microsoft gives users the boot
Yep, that's been around for quite a few years. Was the prime method of Halo 1 multiplayer back during the original Xbox era, as I recall.

 

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And if they would stop pirating **** in the first place, I could just play my damn games and not worry about this BS.

And due to human nature, that will never happen. Ever. And you can quote me on that.

 

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I assume that human nature revolves around greed, insecurity and stupidity then. :blah:
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I assume that human nature revolves around greed, insecurity and stupidity then. :blah:

Yep.

 

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Re: Microsoft gives users the boot
XLink is also a good alternative for original Xboxes. 'Wonder if they'll support the 360 someday.

 

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Was anyone here directly affected by this ban?
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This is all a load of balls

1) The cretins working at Microsoft are getting our attention with this. What’s that phrase "All publicity is good publicity". Any surprise this happens as Christmas gets closer?

2) DRM will never ever work, someone somewhere, will make it their personal challenge and joy out of life to try and break the DRM, its what some guys do when they cant seem to communicate with the other sex or their pornnet connection is down

3) You are only going to piss off honest people who buy games and feel like they are being accused of some wrong doing. Its like dating a fat girl, you may like her, but your friends would not.

4) We are only creating some entertaining reading material for them while they wank away the day smoking and drinking vendor-coffee on the bog of their offices

5) what we say or do, doesn’t really matter, and for all those who say they would boycott, protest, etc........ no you wont, a new game will arrive sooner or later and you will go out and buy it and forget all about your stand. I know it, you know, and Microsoft knows it. There may be a time when you cease any potential future attempts to deliver payment to such a company for
their services which on countless times have so pointedly and catastrophically failed to deliver the intended service. Let us not forget the problems with the Fallout 3 addons.  And yes, I am aware that any such activity will be greeted initially with hilarity and disbelief quickly be replaced by derision, and even perhaps bemused
rage. But in time, another product will arrive and your principles are left on your Steam account as you download the latest title but still complain about the price and quality of the software.


6) I thought Apple were ****e, that they had won the cup of holy annoying and excrement of dead donkeys. But Microsoft really, truly is the champion.  But I thinks it’s fair to say that most of us discovered to our considerable dissatisfaction and disappointment what a useless shower of bastards most corporations truly are.

7) Don’t forget this is the same company that brought us Vista, where most people may say that windows 98, outdated though it is, shone like brilliant stars
of success and hope, in the midst of Satan’s inadequate excuse of an operating system.

8) But to be fair, what is the alternative?

9) There will always, be pirates, hackers, critics, lawbreakers, monkey butlers, people trying to impose controls such as DRM. Why? Because it makes money. Someone out there is obviously making a lot of money from DRM and the like, promoting it as a better and safer way to stop piracy. Personally I thought the CD key that came with the game was enough and straight forward. These are probably them same people who believed that blank tapes would destroy the music industry in the 1980’s.

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ITT people don't read/understand the previous four pages.

 

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This is all a load of balls

1) The cretins working at Microsoft are getting our attention with this. What’s that phrase "All publicity is good publicity". Any surprise this happens as Christmas gets closer?

2) DRM will never ever work, someone somewhere, will make it their personal challenge and joy out of life to try and break the DRM, its what some guys do when they cant seem to communicate with the other sex or their pornnet connection is down

3) You are only going to piss off honest people who buy games and feel like they are being accused of some wrong doing. Its like dating a fat girl, you may like her, but your friends would not.

4) We are only creating some entertaining reading material for them while they wank away the day smoking and drinking vendor-coffee on the bog of their offices

5) what we say or do, doesn’t really matter, and for all those who say they would boycott, protest, etc........ no you wont, a new game will arrive sooner or later and you will go out and buy it and forget all about your stand. I know it, you know, and Microsoft knows it. There may be a time when you cease any potential future attempts to deliver payment to such a company for
their services which on countless times have so pointedly and catastrophically failed to deliver the intended service. Let us not forget the problems with the Fallout 3 addons.  And yes, I am aware that any such activity will be greeted initially with hilarity and disbelief quickly be replaced by derision, and even perhaps bemused
rage. But in time, another product will arrive and your principles are left on your Steam account as you download the latest title but still complain about the price and quality of the software.


6) I thought Apple were ****e, that they had won the cup of holy annoying and excrement of dead donkeys. But Microsoft really, truly is the champion.  But I thinks it’s fair to say that most of us discovered to our considerable dissatisfaction and disappointment what a useless shower of bastards most corporations truly are.

7) Don’t forget this is the same company that brought us Vista, where most people may say that windows 98, outdated though it is, shone like brilliant stars
of success and hope, in the midst of Satan’s inadequate excuse of an operating system.

8) But to be fair, what is the alternative?

9) There will always, be pirates, hackers, critics, lawbreakers, monkey butlers, people trying to impose controls such as DRM. Why? Because it makes money. Someone out there is obviously making a lot of money from DRM and the like, promoting it as a better and safer way to stop piracy. Personally I thought the CD key that came with the game was enough and straight forward. These are probably them same people who believed that blank tapes would destroy the music industry in the 1980’s.

10) arse.


Do you have a modded console?

If yes, sucks to be you, the TOU is there for a reason, and you voided any reason to be allowed on Live if you modded it.

If not, what the hell are you so pissed off about?  This doesn't affect you IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER.

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Don’t forget this is the same company that brought us Vista

I think you'd find Vista works well enough, even *gasp* a GOOD operating system if you'd stop *****ing at it all the time.

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There will always, be pirates, hackers, critics, lawbreakers, monkey butlers, people trying to impose controls such as DRM

I'd like to revisist this point, as it doesn't matter.  Microsoft is obligated to try and reduce piracy by their partners, because if they don't it's the exact same thing as endorsing piracy.  Which, no matter how impractical to enforce, is illegal.

 

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Do you have a modded console?

If yes, sucks to be you, the TOU is there for a reason, and you voided any reason to be allowed on Live if you modded it.

If not, what the hell are you so pissed off about?  This doesn't affect you IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER.
So people should ignore anything that doesn't affect them directly?

 

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Re: Microsoft gives users the boot
Ignoring perfectly-justified actions that don't affect me directly seems like a safe policy.