

Microsoft's Xbox 360 now able to sniff out illegitimate copies of games








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microsoft is taking greed to the next level
By AntDX316 on 5/18/2007 3:48:49 AM , Rating: -1
microsoft is taking greed to the next level by ripping off people who work hard for their money and in turn giving that money to the charity

By AntiV6 on 5/18/2007 3:56:33 AM , Rating: 5
They are being greedy because they banned people who breeched the terms of service and were using copied discs?

How much of that $$$ that people save by getting copied games actually goes to charity?

RE: microsoft is taking greed to the next level
By FITCamaro on 5/18/2007 7:10:10 AM , Rating: 1
What about the game developers who spent their money and worked hard to make their games, only to have someone pirate it? Or is that just part of your corporate greed world too where people want to be paid for their creations and hard work.

Your statement is ones of the dumbest I've ever seen. I don't even want to know what drug you're doing to where you can equate preventing people from using an online service on a hacked console to greed. How exactly are people giving that money to charity? By buying a game and giving it to others for free? That's not charity, its piracy. You're obviously a liberal who thinks that people should be given things for free if they can't afford them.

Video games are not a necessity. If you're can't afford to play them, then you don't. If you want to, get a better job to make more money so you can. If you can't because you didn't bother to get an education, that's your fault and no one else's.

RE: microsoft is taking greed to the next level
By uallas5 on 5/18/2007 8:10:45 AM , Rating: 5

I was agree with everything you said until I got to that statement. What kind of drugs are YOU on that you'd think that being a liberal has anything to do with video game piracy. I hope you don't actually think that NO conservative person would ever lie, cheat or steal.

RE: microsoft is taking greed to the next level
By Spivonious on 5/18/2007 10:04:07 AM , Rating: 3
I think you took his statement out of context. Liberals generally support more government involvement through programs that reward people for being lazy. All it does is make those people even less able to help themselves. I've even heard of single mothers having more kids simply so they can get more money out of the taxpayers.





RE: microsoft is taking greed to the next level
By Rampage on 5/18/2007 12:38:27 PM , Rating: 2

Actually uallas5, he's right.
Go to anti-RIAA sites and talk to the people, find out where they lie politically. The majority are leftist liberals.

Both sides have good points, but I lean to the right, and for good reason.
Piracy does no good for developers, or frankly anyone but the kid who doesnt want to pay for something they don't need.

When you grow older, work hard for an education, get a good paying job, you can afford these games and will respect your neighbor who studied hard at the university to get a computer science degree to create this game for you.

The people who refuse to accept the system, chose to steal.
Of course both sides are guilty of this, but as I said go checkout anti-RIAA websites whose members advocate and defend IP theft.
Conservative Democrats and Republicans both agree that "if you don't buy your neighbors product, you can't expect him to buy yours".
Unless you are a liberal always fighting The Man, in which case you refuse to work with the system and get a great job.

I personally like things like Steam. You cut out the middleman, and the money goes nearly 100% to the actual developers. Whenever I want a game, I usually just pick one off of there. Its faster than wasting gas driving to the store, and you can still back up your games.

Someday soon, consoles will also be soley online distribution as well and the issue raised by this article will all be in the past.

So would-be thieves out there, your days are numbered. Steam is testament to that.

RE: microsoft is taking greed to the next level
By christojojo on 5/18/2007 1:55:21 PM , Rating: 2
I'm just wondering, since when has anybody guaranted somebody a job if they worked hard and got a degree?
Don't get me wrong I believe in hard work and a great education: I am a teacher (not English) after all (nothing like job security). But we all know of down sizing, outsourcing and every other economic twist that happens, hurt educated and uneducated people alike. I am neither "pro-", nor "anti" "The Man". I like some leaders Republican and Democrat. I dislike leaders when they lie more than necessary, both G.W.B. and B.C. fit into that last one. ("I did it" and "Oops, my bad", would have gone a long way in my book.)

I do not see anything wrong with Microsoft did here. I also, believe that the next stage for distribution IS the internet, but I still try to buy a hard copy. I do this because, like brick and mortar places, they can close without any recourse for the consumer.

As far as having babies for more aid is concerned, that's just lame. It does happen, not as much as people say but it does happen. I just think it is a lame statement to prevent piracy. Poor "baby-having" people cant afford an Xbox 360. They can't afford such things as food, bug free apartments, even such petty things as dental work. If the amount lost due to piracy is being calculated based on what a poor person has but could never afford that's just sad.

I see it now...

Steve Ballmer: We lost fifty three trillion gold pieces because a poor "baby having" person bought a pirated copy of "Sims Dogs of Mouse Eating DOOM Tournament 33" at a dollar instead of not buying it at $59.99.

Sorry for the rant. I'm a bit ornery today.



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Uh huh.

RE: microsoft is taking greed to the next level
By HDBanger on 5/18/2007 8:35:13 AM , Rating: 2
Here is one of those folks who thinks everything under the sun is left or right. Break out of their false paradigm man, they are all bought and paid for, left , right, middle. Nice grammar btw. ;p

RE: microsoft is taking greed to the next level
By FITCamaro on 5/18/07, Rating: -1
RE: microsoft is taking greed to the next level
By mars777 on 5/18/2007 12:06:50 PM , Rating: 2
He tried to say that you have a black/white vision.

You happen to loose perception about things when you comment.

The lost perception would be: colors or the grey area.

This is a tipical US phenomena.

By christojojo on 5/19/2007 11:58:52 AM , Rating: 3
As an American I have to agree. I rarely find people willing to look at more than their predetermined point of view. Like global warming- They either admit it (saying we have to plant trees and stop driving so much) or deny it (saying it's a plot to hurt the economy). It's way too rare that someone will just say well let me read about it first. Even rarer to hear someone say, "Hey, we can change a few things here and there, people can still work and make money everyone can be happy."

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)

John Ciardi
US poet (1916 - 1986)

RE: microsoft is taking greed to the next level
By chick0n on 5/18/07, Rating: -1
By AntDX316 on 5/18/2007 9:45:25 AM , Rating: 3
im offended because i have said nothing about this affecting me and i dont even have a 360 nor do i support piracy and u put "supporting fuckheads like me"

By Vanilla Thunder on 5/18/2007 10:17:15 AM , Rating: 5
I pay for all my games, and I work my ass for it.

Is this an admission of prostitution for gaming?


RE: microsoft is taking greed to the next level
By TravisO on 5/18/2007 9:11:19 AM , Rating: 2
When you scan some charity receipts that equal the price of the games you own, then at least you have an argument, albeit not one that will hold up in court.

Let's see, you probably have 20 copied games, $60 per game = $1,200... so let's see those donation receipts... oh yea, I forget, you're lying.

Hey I use to mod too, I was very naughty with my Dreamcast, but hey, I got a better paying job and now I've gone 100% legit with my PS2, Gamecube and 360. Now my PSP, well I might be guilty of that but I only use it to play emulated NES games anyways, not PSP games.

RE: microsoft is taking greed to the next level
By AntDX316 on 5/18/2007 9:36:43 AM , Rating: 3
no i didnt mean it like that i ment microsoft converted the money they get from doing this stuff so they can in turn give the money to charity organizations such as the Bill Gates fund

and btw i dont do piracy i buy programs and games i want legally and would never distribute them because the companies spent so much time and effort on R&D that giving them what they want is only fair... of course this pirating is obviously wrong and is illegal and i dont support it

RE: microsoft is taking greed to the next level
By B on 5/18/2007 4:23:51 PM , Rating: 3
Microsoft and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are completely different entities. There is no overlap. Micorsoft did not fund the Foundation, Bill Gates did with his own personal and private property. Bill Gates owned shares of Microsoft, he then gave up his right of ownership of these shares to the Foundation. The Foundation is now merely a shareholder of Microsoft. There is no co-mingling of assets. For all intents and purposes, both legal and practical, these are two completely unrelated separate entities. As and aside, who cares if a charity receives a cash dividend from Microsoft, rather than Bill Gates? (Excluding the children in Africa with HIV or Malaria)

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