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Nude Images on Xbox LIVE

A Lansing mother was shocked after her two children were subjected to nude pictures on Xbox LIVE. Michigan State Police say this disturbing crime should be a wake up call for parents.

Video games are meant to be a haven mostly targeted towards children but just like logging onto the Internet, state police say online games have become a magnet for sexual predators.
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Published: 656 days 10 hours ago | News | Xbox 360
 
 

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Jenzo - 656 days 10 hours ago
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Xbox Live is pure evil.
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LJWooly - 656 days 9 hours ago
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Hey, come on. It could have happened anywhere.

Although I must admit, there's something about Live that does seem to bring out the worst in gamers. Maybe it's the age demographic that Live is aimed at, I don't know.

Still, it's not Live's fault this happened, it's up to the individuals that commited the crime.
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Richdad - 656 days 8 hours ago
1.2 - Not just Live
Just think by putting the address of a adult site in your browser you can get to something what was mentioned. Also you can see how are messegers like Yahoo and Community sites like Orkut have these things in them.
But also one thing is to be mentioned that Xbox Live provides with very high level of digital communication so this is missued. BUt I surely think that how fair is for the parents to let their children play on LIVE without any supervison or I must say they should atlest not let 15 years or less kids play online games better they use Live just for free contents.
Also not only thes kids ruin themselves but they mostly ruin the matches on Live by jumping instantly from one match to another giving awkward commnents etc.
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Close_Second - 656 days 8 hours ago
1.3 - Xbox Live..what about this site...
...I hate that you cannot turn on a setting that will ensure adult avatars are not displayed. This site should introduce a setting so when you upload your avatar that you indicate if it contains x-rated images. That way I can turn on a setting that won't display such images.
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thedude17655 - 656 days 8 hours ago
1.4 - @ Close Second...
not to mention avatars that have swears in them, this site doesn't look to kindly on swears in there post, so why not the avatars.
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Timesplitter14 - 656 days 8 hours ago
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Yes. This is tragic. I mean.... seeing humans in their natural form? These children will surely become murderers or somrthing like that.

/sarcasm, just in case you didn't notice
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DRUDOG - 656 days 7 hours ago
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Pedophiles should be castrated. Yes, I mean that. Or be forced to take medication or get a shot that takes away their libido. I understand those folks have a "sickness", but it's supposedly uncurable so take some more drastic measures. I bet that sh!t bag wouldn't be sending pics of himself without any balls...
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DarkSniiper - 656 days 3 hours ago
1.7 - "Xbox Live is pure evil"
Home will be worst. Predators can invite the kids to there apartment and the walls could be lined with Nude images everywhere and the TVs could be playing porn for the kiddies. HOME will be Evail!

$nipe
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JoelR - 656 days 2 hours ago
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Dark
If your PS3 is setup with parental controls the subaccounts can not enter a private space with out the primary account giving access to that space. That means if a child enters somewhere like that - it is the parent that is remiss and not the Interface.

It's the same reason PSN does not allow you to upload your own avatar but must use their preapproved incarnations. Sony is being extra careful because it is an all ages environment.

AKA - Parents have all the control about where their children get to inside Home.
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MattFoley - 656 days 2 hours ago
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I for once agree with Sniper. Home will be far worse unless the appropriate tools are in place to stop such things from happening. Remeber when that kiddie porn playground thing happened in SecondLife, now it will be apartments. They should have people in place like they do in chat rooms to bust these perverts. Otherwise they are going to run amuck and ruin everyone elses experience.

I only think Home will be worse because its a 3d world and like second life its seems to appeal more to these freaks.
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CrazedFiend - 656 days 2 hours ago
1.10 - Great...
Give good ol' Jack something else to rave about.

You pervs are gonna make it hard for the rest of us. Get help or stick to the internet. Leave the game world alone.
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Cryos - 655 days 22 hours ago
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Love how all you x-bots are condemning Home and saying it will be worse without any knowledge of it.

Also, this mother refuses to now let her children play on Live because of this? Overreact much?

"She now fears for the safety of her children"?

I'm sure she has no problem with them hearing the profanity on Live. I also find it funny that the article says they were "subjected" to the photos, as if they had no control over seeing them.

Again, the media makes it all about the console and gaming, and refuse to offer any insights on how parents can, and SHOULD take action to prevent these things from happening. Banning her kids from live is a knee-jerk reaction, esp. when there are other alternatives.
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Bloodshedder - 655 days 21 hours ago
1.12 - @ Close_Second
what are you talking abouth!
1.13 dantesparda | 655 days 21 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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Jenzo - 655 days 20 hours ago
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I was being ironic. I mean what are these articles getting at? Xbox Live is no different than other online communities. In fact it's probably safer considering all of the parental features.

I'm sick and tired of reading article after article that tries to take a stab at Xbox Live. I rarely see any articles bashing PSN.
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JsonHenry - 655 days 14 hours ago
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I thought the 360 has parental lock that disables this sort of thing?
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xbox360elitegamer - 656 days 10 hours ago
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this ain't right, not good for the future of the children playing on Xbox Live...
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wow4u - 656 days 9 hours ago
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Give it a rest -- there is no more or less* danger to this happening on PSN or Xbox LIVE.

The news report was fcuking retarded and inaccurate.

WTF did Halo 3 have to do with it? There is *NO* video feature to Halo 3.... and that's just for starters.

This story was just a 6'oclock hysteria.
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Delive - 656 days 7 hours ago
2.2 - Hey
This article has nothing to do with PSN. lol. When talking about how good live is, adding PSN into the conversation is inappropriate because it's not as good as live. Don't bring PSN into it when Live needs a partner in crime. PSN only has 126 perverts on it compared to Live's 1.59 Million pervs due to a much smaller audience.

Having fun with this stuff is great.
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lwsbrck - 656 days 1 hour ago
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simple solution, the stupid bint should restrict picture messaging to friends only, or restrict all together. its not exactly hard to do >.>
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joe382 - 655 days 17 hours ago
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Last week my friends live account got hacked and the hacker put all this hardcore porn on it and changed all the friends list. It was sooo funny because his mum saw it and was disgusted. This could happen to anyone.
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JoelR - 655 days 8 hours ago
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Having you account hacked is not something that can happen to anyone.
If you have a decent secure password (min 6 characters(preferably 8 chracters) and mix of numbers and letters not based on dictionary words.) And you are smart enough not to be social engineered - the odds of you being hacked are vanishingly small.
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Mr_Kuwabara - 656 days 10 hours ago
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OMG teh bUbi3s agaienz gaimIeng!
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Gish - 656 days 5 hours ago
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Actually they ban by MAC address. It is the physical address of your PS3, which means that PS3 is a brick as far as PSN is concerned.
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Jack T - 656 days 10 hours ago
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Home will be far worse. A joystiq interview with Phil Harrison confirmed content on Home will not be monitored.

http://www.joystiq.com/2007...

That means you could walk into a room and be subjected to sick child pornography videos. All you will be able to do then is make a complaint, with no guarantee Sony will do anything about it.

Sony is deliberatly creating an enviroment in which peadophiles can share video and pictures and not get caught.
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Lord Anubis - 656 days 10 hours ago
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lol, Home will be monitor and there is also a report system. Also you can't just walk into an apartment. At any rate those that break the rules would be subject to a PSN ban.
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pwnsause - 656 days 9 hours ago
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rooms at home have a choice to make them public or private. trust me im well informed, im in the beta
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snoop_dizzle - 656 days 9 hours ago
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xbl also has a report system....but it seemed at least from what i saw, it was never used that much. Hopefully it is utilized this time in home.

Gamers on n4g are smart enough about this stuff, but not everyone using home(especially kids) will know good enough.

also kids can be are curious...they might get into something they will regret.

maybe they will be drawn into a room by some thing like... "Win a free ps3 game if you enter my room"...who knows.
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toughNAME - 656 days 9 hours ago
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Even with some of the cool features Home is supposed to have, I'm going to have to agree with you.

Internet=porn
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LJWooly - 656 days 9 hours ago
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There was an article a while back on N4G regarding the lenghts Sony are going to in order to make sure Home becomes nothing like that.

Apparently, anyone who is proven to have done something wrong will have their PSN account cancelled, and their IP invalidated (or something like that) meaning the only way they'd be able to get online again would be to move house.

I'm sure Home will be fine, although I'm glad people are raising concern about it, spurring Sony to make sure nothing like that happens.

However, I think you're not really concerned, and that you're jealous or something. Either way, it can only result in good things for Home.
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snoop_dizzle - 656 days 9 hours ago
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they might be able to monitor it, and i hope so....for some sicko like that this would be a more appealing route than say xbl, since you have your own virtual room.

And if what you say is true..than great. The question is, are people actually going to use the report system? xbl has one...and i never really heard about it being used much. Possibly all they will have to do though is make the report feature very noticeable. However while they should do this, parents need to smarten up.
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LJWooly - 656 days 9 hours ago
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I think a virtual room makes it fairly more complicated, and tehrefore actually serves the adverse for a paedophile.

Also, Live relies on people reporting violations, while Home relies on reports and heavy moderating (apparently).

But, neither of us know anyhting for sure (I'm assuming you weren't in on the Home beta either) so we'll just have to wait and see how it turns out.
Still, raising concern is only going to push sony to make Home safer for kids, and therefore is nothing but a good thing to do.
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wow4u - 656 days 9 hours ago
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@4.1

How do you think Xbox LIVE works?

Halo 3 has no video ability.

And, these kids would have to have *accepted* to view the message -- it was their own poor judgment ("hey, should i watch videos from strangers?") that caused this.

To the HATERS from the Sony Camp, be careful what you're saying about Online Gaming, becuase the PSN version of this idiot story is just around the corner.

Intstead of taking this as a method to spread anti- Xbox 360 FUD, you'd be much better off saying: "THIS ARTICLE WAS STUPID becuase X,Y,X".

to paraphrase;
"First they came for Xbox LIVE, then they came for Wii-Net, and then they came for PSN, but there was no one left to defend me..."

Wake up people.
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CrazedFiend - 656 days 1 hour ago
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Actually this concern has been brought up repeatedly about Home almost as soon as the concept was announced. Directly to Sony. I would be very surprised if they didn't have some kind of safeguard woven into Home from nearly the beginning.

If you're still concerned that some safeguard might not be included, why not contact Sony about the problem. Unlike Live, Home is not quite out yet. Writing your concern to Sony would do us a whole hell of a lot better than complaining about it here. That way, even if they haven't put something in already (again that would be a big shock to me), they can begin working early on some kind of patch.
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MACHone - 656 days 10 hours ago
5 - Whatever You Do...
...don't let them play Uno. You're just asking for trouble.
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Chug - 656 days 7 hours ago
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I dont know why you got disagrees.
I've seen some really f'd-up stuff playing uno. Everything from wieners & boobs to guns & drugs. Not a very good environment for children.
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Jenzo - 655 days 17 hours ago
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What's that in your avatar? Play Uno a lot? ;)
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Azurite - 656 days 10 hours ago
6 - "Video games are meant to be a haven mostly targeted towards children"
That's bullcrap.
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Armyless - 656 days 3 hours ago
6.1 - Ya, I have a BIG problem with that
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lwsbrck - 655 days 13 hours ago
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a massive agree and bubbles for you sir
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Lord Anubis - 656 days 10 hours ago
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there should be a setting for kids where they don't get VoIP and they don't accept pictuers or video.

any who this reminds me of a person that was sending me strange pictures. First a moon then a sea lion and a flower. I don't konw if there was a message there but I didnt figured it out.
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OnslaughtX - 656 days 10 hours ago
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Videogames are NOT a haven for children, and its this mentality that annoys the hell out of me. Games, just like books or film, appeal to a wide range of people/ages and thus are DESIGNED for a wide range of people/ages. Games are not a HAVEN, you do not sit a child in front of a game parents and let it act as a babysitter. Goddamn idiots. While nudity on Live is in poor taste, its that BS view that really gets me.
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eagle21 - 656 days 9 hours ago
9 - Sony has went as far as saying Home will have a POLICE system..lol
Also said it's a new exclusive system unavailable anywhere. That's what I'm talking about...lol Phil Harrison was asked about freedom of content first at the home Q&A. He said that yes, Home allows adults to have an adult experience in private, but not in public spaces. And harrassment, vulgarity, etc, will be protected from and enforced by bans.

But this mom needs to do her homework first. Online anything has risks.
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RecSpec - 656 days 9 hours ago
9.1 - That's awesome
Home Police, always in conflict with the Home Mafia.
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caffman - 655 days 17 hours ago
9.2 - and the Home fire brigade!
to combat flamers!
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Spinner - 656 days 9 hours ago
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SO F*CKING WHAT? It's a few naked women, who cares? Seriously this is one of the big reasons why the US sucks. Most people in Europe wouldn't give a crap about this, let alone make huge stories out of nudity.

The stuff that gets blown out of proportion here is unbelievable. Side of an alien boob? Oh snap, let's make it tonight's 7pm feature story.

And I'm sure the mom conveniently had no problem with them shooting up aliens, throwing grenades at soldiers, or blowing people's heads off. Yeah. That's f*cking normal. There's no way in hell they'll ever see nudity or have sex in their lifetime, but I'm sure they'll be playing with an arsenal of weapons and murdering people.
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OnslaughtX - 656 days 9 hours ago
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Killing people ok.

Nudity bad.

Funny eh?
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snoop_dizzle - 656 days 9 hours ago
10.2 - 3fixme
um....what about pedophiles going after kids or drawing them into their virtual rooms?
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LJWooly - 656 days 9 hours ago
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Snoop, if that's targeted at home, all I can say to you is that Home will be heavily moderated, and i'm pretty sure that sort of thing won't happen.

Also, the demographic Sony aimed the PS3 is a wee bit different from those using Live, if you get what I mean.
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snoop_dizzle - 656 days 9 hours ago
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i see what your saying LJWooly....see my comment above. 4.6

as for the demographic, it changes over time. You will start seeing more and more younger people on as time goes by.
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