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Pirates make death threats to Xbox 360 Director of Policy Enforcement Stephen Toulouse.

As has been reported, Microsoft has been cracking down on modded consoles for its Xbox 360 console. This weekend angry pirates, ( thats funny to type) threw loose threats at Stephen Toulouse the director of Policy and Enforcement for Xbox Live. Pressed with phone calls where threats toward himself, wife, and pets were made. Toulouse made an appearance on a IRC channel to ask the pirates to stop calling him and that all threats had been passed on to law enforcement.
Heres a copy of the trancript from the IRC channel #360banned.
http://Twitter.com/stepto
While this is funny in no way shape or form, you gotta admit these low life #%$#^#, really love their xbox 360's. Talk about Fanboys.

Do You think they went a little too far?

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Published: 39 days 21 hours ago | News | Xbox 360

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EnViAbLe27 - 40 days ago

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Wow just wow.

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Shadow Flare - 39 days 23 hours ago

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A few words to the pirates:

GET A JOB

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SupaPlaya - 39 days 21 hours ago

1.2 - Sad...

Civilized people...

Death threats over something they themselves did that's wrong. What did they think it's going to happen?

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Leio - 39 days 21 hours ago

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Lol empty words from som idiots.. Smart criminals dont threat they just do.

-Im so sad there are actually people that retarded.

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7thNightvolley - 39 days 21 hours ago

1.4 - hw pathetic n sad

all i can say is HA HA HAHAHA HA HA HA HAHAHHA.. .. "angry pirates freakin funny

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Xbox Avatars Shoe - 39 days 20 hours ago

1.5 - Criminals making criminal threats? ZOMG! I've never seen that before!

As if illegally pirating a game wasn't bad enough, they had to go and make death threats.

Pirate jerks.

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el_bandito - 39 days 19 hours ago

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They felt cheated. Aah the irony...

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ThanatosDMC - 39 days 19 hours ago

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Stupid pirates... now off to play GBA games on my PSP...

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sikbeta - 39 days 18 hours ago

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HA! and then the fanboys deny Piracy on the xbox 360 lol

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_hiphopgamer_ - 39 days 18 hours ago

1.9 - For a moment I thought this was

a south park episode.

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Noctis Aftermath - 39 days 16 hours ago

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I thought this was the norm for microsoft employees, by that i mean dealing with enraged nerds and their empty threats.

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f789790 - 39 days 14 hours ago

1.11 - People in the gaming industry get death threats all the time

Not one has been fulfilled...at least I hope so.

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beardpapa - 39 days 13 hours ago

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Looks like these pirates will need a better paying job to get a new 360 with actual games.

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Trebius - 39 days 12 hours ago

1.13 - B-O-T-T-O-M L-I-N-E

I would bet anything that at least 80% of those banned were in their early teens...and they're withdrawing right now...

Its really not funny...

It's like getting someone addicted to crack, then taking it from them and making them quit cold turkey.

No job, no way to get more, they lash out.

This is typical withdrawal behavior...they're so angry right now, they dont know what to do with themselves...

They're probably begging their parents to buy them out of this situation, and they're saying no...

So I wouldnt be surprised if a kid kills his family over this...

XBox live is a Hell of a Drug.

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Major_Tom - 39 days 12 hours ago

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At what point did you think that pirates are poor, or jobless? It can greatly enhance someones life if they are poor that's correct, but it also helps self management skills such as prioritizing your money. Alot of people aren't from rich family that can afford something, and most of us pay rent, or some other dependence. We can't always afford the newest things that come out. So why should some one suffer because of their personal financial situation.

N4G, full of retards.

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BRG9000 - 39 days 12 hours ago

1.15 - @1.14

Just because one can't afford luxuries doesn't give them a pass to steal them. Would you say "So why should some one suffer because of their personal financial situation" about someone who stole a Ferrari?

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Shadow Flare - 39 days 11 hours ago

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I can't believe you just called us a bunch of retards when what you said is one of the most retarded things i've ever read.

Like 1.15 above me said, don't expect to get everything in life. If you want something, you work for it. And if your situation doesn't allow it, that doesn't give you a free ticket to steal. Imagine going to court after you stole an album from a shop, and your defence is, "well my financial situation isn't good and other people I know have this album so I thought its ok to steal it." The judge would think your an idiot. I take it your one of these people who think they deserve to get everything handed to them on a silver platter. The internet makes it easier to steal and just cos its easy doesn't make it right. If you want something you work for it. Lazy retard

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Saaking - 39 days 10 hours ago

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pathetic.

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badz149 - 39 days 8 hours ago

1.18 - @supaplaya

they are called "pirates" for a reason.

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glennc - 39 days 7 hours ago

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@Major_Tom - ahh there's always one communist in the group

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Lightsaber - 38 days 22 hours ago

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People like this are cowards they think that they can hide behind the safey of the internet and phone lines. They have no respect for the law or anything else. I really hope that we start reading about arrest that are being made in these cases.

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UserThree - 40 days ago

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Unbelievable Right?

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dantheman1515 - 39 days 11 hours ago

2.1 - A bunch of friends and people in my area got banned.

But, its not like Microsoft found away to tell. The guy responsible for the system mods got raided by the police for selling meth! Haha, and they found information regarding the disc trays and turned them into Microsoft.

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ZombieAutopsy - 40 days ago

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If their was a legitimate use for a modded xbox other than playing a copied game i could see people getting upset and have it justified, but there is nothing else its good for.

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Persistantthug - 39 days 18 hours ago

3.1 - I was told that having a modded XBOX 360 can allow you to use other harddrives.....

I don't have a modded XBOX so I can't confirm, but that's what I was told.

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Johnny Jiron - 39 days 17 hours ago

3.2 - You can pop out the current hard-drive with most any other 2.5

with a few minor mods (not to the console just the drive). But I think it was recently reported that that won't work anymore after the fall update goes public.

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StrboyM - 39 days 23 hours ago

4 - hey

These guys are obviously killers..I mean they play videogames..so they have to be serious right?

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peeps - 39 days 21 hours ago

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you talk like it's acceptable for someone carrying out their job to have himself and his family recieve death threats... *sigh*

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StrboyM - 39 days 11 hours ago

4.2 - Is sarcasm lost here?

maybe I worded it wrong...I was saying they arent really killers...and that they are just disgruntled videogame players...

can i have my bubbles back now please.

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THE MAX SPEED 21 - 39 days 21 hours ago

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What's up with the Elmo pic though? lol did you put it because of the Seasame Street thing on Google.

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BX81 - 39 days 15 hours ago

5.1 - Hmm

He should've put the pic of pirate Elmo. From the Elmo and the bookaneers dvd. Sorry when you have kids you're bound to watch a few Elmo movies!

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thereapersson - 39 days 21 hours ago

6 - I think that any and all legal action taken against these people is justified

People think that because they are behind a computer, that they can do whatever the f*ck they want -- and that includes harassing others through external means, and trying to ruin lives. It's intolerable behavior, and the fact that none of these people would do any of this stuff if they were face to face with their "victims" is even more pathetic.

You can't afford something, so when you get punished for stealing, you have to get revenge in such a vindictive way? That's like stealing a car, and then shooting the owner of the car when he tries to get it back, or calls the police!

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Noctis Aftermath - 39 days 16 hours ago

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Threats over the internet should not be taken seriously(it could be a 10 year old making the threats for all you know), it only got serious when they started calling his phone, just goes to show some idiots take things to far.

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CaptainMarvelQ8 - 39 days 21 hours ago

7 - wtf?!

the man is just doing his job!
and he gets threats ! and on his family also!
poor guy

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dchalfont - 39 days 21 hours ago

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mr spam bot, some friendly advice, no one on a gaming site want D&G merchandise, i wanted a pair of jordan shoes in the 80's....not now. Just give up, i will report your posts every single time as i have been since you started

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thereapersson - 39 days 21 hours ago

8.2 - @ DChalfont

Many variations on the same BOT program, spamming this website. I don't know if the MODS can even do anything about it, considering we keep seeing these accounts popping up on a constant basis.

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dchalfont - 39 days 21 hours ago

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the wittle babies are upset that their second hand x-boxes that they got at a pawn shop can't play games anymore, obviously stephen doesn't need to pay any mind to it. But if it were me receiving the threats, i would make sure the full extent of the law is used in punishing them for being juvenile little ****'s and thinking they can get away with it

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ps3rulz - 39 days 21 hours ago

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The man doing his job, and these scums giving him and his family death threats wow just wow. Yo pirates get a f****** job like every1 else and pay for your games.
only in america

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Sukebe_Bancho - 39 days 20 hours ago

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this isn't just america. i remember a while ago a japanese man was arrested for stalking a convenient store clerk because he told him they discontinued his favorite rice ball. the stalker left him notes stating that he was going to break into his house while he was asleep and kill him. so i'm pretty sure that this kind of stuff happens quite often around the world. we just don't get to hear about it.i do agree with you tho. the man did not deserve those kinds of threat, especially towards his family. these thieves need to stfu and learn that what they are doing is wrong. that is modding and threatening someones life.

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tatotiburon - 39 days 21 hours ago

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people are crazy...get a fu$%$ life

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mythamp - 39 days 2 hours ago

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This is the easiest way to make money, it might seem like a small deal here in the US, but piracy has a huge market in rest of the world. No wonder MS cant justify the huge number of consoles sold but not many original games.

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kingme71 - 39 days 21 hours ago

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Except now they know how to get Stephen to come online and respond to them in the future. Should have just ignored them and let the authorities deal with it.

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jpod - 39 days 21 hours ago

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From what I heard, it's not pirates, it's 4chan.

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10 Steps Back - 39 days 20 hours ago

13.1 - Don't...

Don't mess with 4Chan :P

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BaseballFan15 - 39 days 17 hours ago

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That's way more serious

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Timesplitter14 - 39 days 17 hours ago

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4chan is a bunch of lonely basement dwellers having fun calling themselves internet tuff guys to lure out conformists and sensible people, nothing more.

It's actually a very fun and remarkably intelligent community (when it's not busy being remarkably dumb). They're not the super hackers you think they are. They just spend their days talking about life, trying to make clever posts or trying to make cleverly dumb posts.

It's the best thing the internet ever had to offer, if you're a libertarian.

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OpenGL - 39 days 16 hours ago

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@ Timesplitter14

I always lol when people take /b/ seriously.

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ReBurn - 39 days 14 hours ago

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So what's the difference between pirates and 4chan? They both live in the seedy underbelly of the internet.

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ZombieAutopsy - 40 days ago

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broken record...im pretty sure we can start reporting as SPAM now.

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PirateThom - 39 days 22 hours ago

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Yeah, great community, threatening some guy and his family. You guys are true class.

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thereapersson - 39 days 21 hours ago

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You really need to get a fvcking life

@ maximus

Taking anything this guy says seriously? Don't even humor him

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MaximusPrime - 39 days 21 hours ago

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Agreed. comment removed.

I just think that guy is out of his mind.

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Nitrowolf2 - 39 days 21 hours ago

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ya because i want to go play with an online communtiy thats going to threaten me, cause thats what we like to call a "True community". Wow honestly that shouldn't happen anywhere, and this isn't just XBL it happens all over everywhere.
You need to STFU

well i think thats just wrong, Pirating illegal isn't it? Then again Modding your system to play games is illegal, so what are these people complaining about when they did wrong, and then do more by threatening the family. Thats just sad, and wrong.

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napoleon_ist - 39 days 17 hours ago

4 - threats toward [...] pets were made.

that's why xboys are called fantards.

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Lykon - 39 days 16 hours ago

5 - LOL

LOL LOL LOL

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xaviertooth - 39 days 15 hours ago

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PP aka metalgearrising is a self-confessed pirate. he MUST be that pirate threatening a microsoft employee, woww!

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jack who - 39 days 13 hours ago

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lol

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wingman32x - 39 days 11 hours ago

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What a devoted and understanding community. God these guys are immature.

Granted, It isn't fair to judge a whole fanbase based off the actions of only a small portion of it.

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ChrisW - 39 days 11 hours ago

9 - Uh-huh...

I bet those doing the threats weren't even Xbots...

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