Xbox 360 - surely everyone has heard about this promising Microsoft console, many even played it. In this topic, I would like to talk a little about the xbox live service, and more specifically about the ban.

So, the Xbox 360. This console has many advantages and also many disadvantages over other gaming platforms.
You can talk about the benefits for a long time, and also holivit about them for a long time. Therefore, we will not do this.
But I would like to dwell on the shortcomings in more detail.
1. Cheap Chinese assembly
As you know, all consoles to one degree or another are defective. For different users, this manifests itself in different ways. Someone has been playing for years and has no problems, someone is struggling with errors of overheating, pressing, memory, etc. almost weekly.
I belong to the latter, but thanks to the site xbox-experts.com , many errors are resolved with a head, a soldering iron and a screwdriver :)
2. The high cost of licensed discs - from 1000r for every mess and from 2250 for game standards to ... some games may be worth it , but the vast majority is definitely NO. The pricing policy in Russia is completely incomprehensible to me - after all, discs are so much behind a hill, and the level of income is much higher.
Naturally there is some solution to this problem: We
reflash the drive so that it can read not only special blanks but also ordinary DVD + R DL magazines.
Download the disk image, write it to a DVD + R DL honestly bought in a store for 100 rubles. We
insert it into the drive and play.

Naturally this is a copyright violation, etc. etc. But this is not about that.

Live

Microsoft has such a service - Xbox live, which allows you to download demos, buy games, movies, etc. etc.
She also has a paid subscription “Gold”, which allows you to play on the Internet, and get extra features from this very live.
A Gold subscription costs about 220 wooden per month, annual subscriptions naturally have discounts. Together with the number of live users, this service carries big grandmothers in Microsoft’s pocket.

Ban

Naturally, Microsoft is making every effort to protect its brainchild from hacking. They use the ban system in live.
For some factors known only to the above company, when you try to enter live, an error like "your console is locked" is displayed. And that’s it. You will not be able to use the live services on this console (more precisely, on this motherboard). It has not yet been invented to crack the solution of how to unlock the console.
But figs would have been with him with live - even if Microsoft did not get our money for Gold, but recently (since the last wave of bans , the hard drives started to block (!) Now it’s impossible to install games on them, all the saves and so on can not be transferred to another console. Well, at least they left the opportunity to persist.
At the time of writing, there is no way to unlock the hard drive ...

The request of those who do not know the essence of the issue is not to advise formatting the screw, etc. The ban flag is stored in an unknown place, the dashboard blocks the work with the hard drive in the presence of this flag.

Essence

I would like to know if the above campaign has the right to use such measures to prevent piracy?
Block access to live - please have a license agreement. Not observing - free. But what about the functionality of the device?
For example, I buy a new xbox ~ 10000r, buy a 250GB ~ ​​5000r hard drive for it, catch a ban and lose 5 kilo rubles just like that? zhosko.

For example, abstracting on cars - I buy a new Porsche Cayenne, the wipers are not happy with me - they tell me to put the official ones on or lose the guarantee, I don’t care if I lose the guarantee - I put on smart wipers. The next day, they introduced the Porsche and inserted the crowbar into the engine. like you made changes to the car, the engine function is locked.

Question of the day

Does the manufacturer have the right to trim the functionality of the devices it sells when they detect interferences from the outside?

PS: What will happen tomorrow? lock drive, console? The day after tomorrow, the bath box can be put on the floor instead of the nightstand?

UPD: In general, the essence of the ban is not clear to me on the part of M $. They stupidly lose money. People even from Russia (!!!) which is not unimportant with our mentality, pay them thousands and thousands for live. How much dough from all over the planet? Wow A ban is just a loss ...
Copyright protection? They don’t ban for playing foolishly, they ban for drive firmware.
Yes, and banned live, and not the ability to play games ...

UPD2: All xbox users urgently need to copy NAND !!!!