"ms say there is no reason for them to ban people,"

wow , thats interesting

ms now no banned mod console aledi...

Microsoft Performs Mass Xbox Console Banning
Here's a Halloween surprise you probably weren't expecting.
by Jim Reilly
US, October 30, 2009

sos : http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/104/1040853p1.html

IF you're getting banned for using a hacked xbox, you're not going to get much sympathy from most of the forumers here.  They've banned machines in the past and there was no reason for them not to do so in the future.

Really people, there's absolutely no moral justification you can use for bragging about pirating games in this sub forum  It's got nothing to do with whether you support ori or whether you are the biggest pirate distributor in asia/file sharer etc.  It's to do with with the T&C of the forums.  If you want to participate in this community but you only buy pirated games, no problem.  We are all here to talk about games after all.  But if you come here asking for technical support or come here bragging bout pirating, then don't expect much in terms of the community.  I think you know exactly what you're missing out on.

After all, they don't talk about pirated games in the PS3 section (i know it's because they can't actually pirate stuff on ps3)?

For me personally, I can't talk about pirated stuff because
1. I've not bought any (this year)
2. My xbox doesn't play ciplak stuff.

Yeah.No pity for a cheap ******* student like me.haha but for anybody out there that modded,just stay away from live for a week or two until the ban wave is stop.

No pity not coz you're student.

Please, you should understand how pirate copy exist. and enjoying stuff you can't afford is not way of life.

I wanna play on LIVE but when I buy my XBOX last year(long long ago) it can play pirated game one. Playing Ori game right now la, but hear they say I still will kena banned because my 360 is modded? Is there a way to like "de-modded" the console? like change a chip or something?

yeah..thats why every student enjoyed put a hundred Gig of movie in their external HD...if not because of piracy,i dont think that a thing like external hd can be come so famous nowadays.
u better sell ur xbox.coz nobody knows how microsft check the piracy thing

NO MATTER ANYTHING (played pre-releases or not, not matter you drive is Hitachi-BenQ-bla bla... no matter the firmware version you are in, Activator DVD or not, ABGX Green or yellow or whatever, no matter the dual layer brand you use, burned at 2x, 2.4x, 4x... bla bla, no matter the game tittle, no matter if mixed retail & backups were played..., backups only, even retail only, Hard drive Official or hacked or whatever..., Got game achievements before or after official release date..., Was playing a retail game, a backup, a DVD, or even a netflix movie or whatever at the moment of getting ban, no matter if you don't even have a single backup or ever inserted a backup... no matter the country you are in, no matter ANYTHING... if you have you Xbox flashed, you WILL get BAN...) end of story...

Reports now indicate that the fresh wave of Microsoft bans on modified consoles has resulted in systems not only being banned from XBox Live, but also removing the ability to install games to the HDD, forbidding the use of Windows Media Centre extender, and not allowing the retrieval of achievements from backups without corrupting profiles.

To quote from Kushan: - What does this mean for you and what can you do about it?

Firstly, and most obviously, you cannot connect to Xbox Live on this console any more. This means no more game updates (aka title updates), XBLA games, marketplace content, netflix/sky player and so on. There is no way around this, all online capabilities are now disabled PERMANENTLY.

In all likelihood, your gamertag has NOT BEEN BANNED. When your gamertag gets banned, Microsoft sends you an email detailing why, if you have not recieved this email then your profile should be ok, to a certain extent.

Hard Drive installs are now disabled on the banned console. This means any disk-based games you have will no longer play off of the hard drive. If you attempt to play a game, it will tell you that it was installed on a different 360 and needs to be deleted/installed again. When you delete the game and attempt to install it, you are given a message telling you that it is not supported. There is no way to fix this, that functionality is simply gone from the banned 360.

The hard drive itself is left untouched - you can place it in another 360, even an unbanned one, and it will still work just fine. You do NOT need to reformat it to regain any kind of functionality. Any installed games will need to be reinstalled for the console you want to play them on. This is normal behaviour and happens when swapping HDDs on unbanned/legit 360's.

Windows Media Centre functionality is disabled. It is still possible to stream video/music content via the video library.

Your Gamertag may be corrupted. This does not mean your gamertag has been banned, you can recover it using any live-capable 360, however ANY ACHIVEMENTS YOU HAVE EARNED SINCE BEING BANNED WILL BE LOST. Your gamertag will be corrupted EVERY SINGLE TIME it is used on a banned console. This means you cannot use your banned console to play backups offline just to get achievements - it wont work, the second you put your profile back on a good 360, it will be corrupted and all progress lost. There is no way around this.

The same applies to game saves - if you access a game save on a banned 360, it too will be corrupted when accessed on a legit/unbanned 360! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! There is no way around this, either.

Your XBLA games and DLC will still be valid, however to play them on a different 360 you will need to be signed into Xbox Live. This is normal behaviour on unbanned/legit 360's as well. They may be corrupted and have to be re-downloaded if you attempt to access them on a banned 360.

You can transfer all of your downloaded content to a new 360 here: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/systemus...ion/default.htm however note that you can only do it once every 12 months.

So, in summary your Banned 360:
• Cannot go on Xbox Live
• Cannot install games to the HDD
• Cannot use Windows Media Centre extender
• Cannot be used to get achievements from backups without corrupting your profile

You cannot do anything about this, short of buying a new 360.

There may be more functionality disabled than mentioned here, things are still being discovered.

- So what caused my ban?
There are MANY theories as to what is causing so many consoles to get banned this time, however as of yet there is nothing concrete, just a lot of circumstantial evidence and speculation. Please do not add to this, a full investigation is under-way.

c4eva, the main guy behind iXtreme, had this to say:
fw itself not detectable
suspect they are going hard on warez releases and incorrect use of abgx!

He also added the following:
just to let you know that im looking into the current ban wave. I am currently running several brand new xboxs on live! These xboxs are in various configs. All are running ixtreme 1.61 One is running original discs, another is running on xbl (no discs), another is running a backup from my region! Until tests are completed, no eta on liteon fw!

When we know more, YOU'LL no more, so please do not ask for updates!
A full transcript is available here - http://pastebin.ca/1660777

Remember, if you really want to blame someone, blame the person that decided to modify your 360 in the first place - most likey, that would be you.