You Can Now Unban Your Xbox 360 Thanks To Modders

YourEMGN Writes: "Recent estimated have said over 1 million gamers have been effected by Microsoft's 360 bans. Modders have attempted to free users from Microsoft's grip by releasing what is known to us as "iXtreme LT". According to a forum post on Xbox-Scene you can now unban your Xbox 360."

[Madusha]

Completing that extremely long process will take hours and most likely cause you to break even more laws. Of course if your desperate, you'll take a shot at it.

[BadboyCivic360]

i think some of these modders should be working for the Defense Department

[Battlefield]

Awesome, good to see the work of modders. It's hard to believe over 1 mill people were banned. 0_0

[Madusha]

*you're

Editing should be allowed for longer than 30 mins....

Back on topic: Yeah it's quite amazing that many people got banned. There are many more modders, they just haven't found em yet

[Valay]

I probably wouldn't try it. Never have gotten involved with modding.

[WildArmed]

lmfao. MS is about to ban another 600k consoles now :)

[darthv72]

I can see flashing the dvd or installing a mod chip are the obvious mods. What other ones are "innocent" people getting banned for?

[Timesplitter14]

They'll fix their xbox but that won't fix their broken honor.

The stench of the weakling will remain with them forever.

Be a man and buy your stuff. Stop being a leech.

[T3L3PROOF]

Or how about just buy another console, with more compatibility (Xbox360 Elite or PS3)

[sbstncstllo]

There was an article about this earlier today.

[dragunrising]

For all the pirates jumping up and down...if you've been online within the past 3 months and/or have a new game with Wave 4 tech your out of luck. HAHA

[Madusha]

@sbstncstllo

No the other post is the duplicate, this was submitted 15- 20 minutes before the other one (First Published) although approved a bit late.

[Raz]

"You Can Now Unban Your Xbox 360 Thanks To Modders"

(This is a highly complex process which relies on a number of free tools and in doing this you may be breaking more laws than you already have. YourEMGN does not recommend this process in any form.)

LMFAO

Wow...that title clashes a bit with the disclaimer, doesn't it?

[Major_Tom]

Be a man, support multi-billion dollar companies, be afraid of change.

[Nineball2112]

Be moral-free, justify illegal behavior to make yourself "feel" better, strive to be different because you think it's the "cool" thing to do.

[siyrobbo]

mmm, how to unban you console, first you need an xbox 360 that is unbanned.... not really that usefull

[vhero]

HAHAHAHAHA Quality proving yet again MS are completely and utterly out of there league with a console.

[Major_Tom]

'Cool' has nothing to do with it. For the first time in history the people have real control, that's all it is.

[Richdad]

And MS should definietly pay them your are fire behind the Xbox 360 sales. You have made MS billions even when they where kicking your asses and you have made me happy too.

Anyways some guys might be thinking that its long process to do such stuff but there is always professional help available in your local grey market.

If the modders wouldnt have done so much to 360 alteast I would have been out at the First RROD. BUt yeah I am still in and guess what I have only purcahsed one 360 till now and yeah its working till now.

[MajestieBeast]

Banned owners just come to the dark side.

[Godmars290]

I find it sadly laughable that MS has made security an issue in everything they do yet time and time again not only are their measures defeated, but defeated within days of release.

[Elven6]

The law of the internet, popular devices will always get hacked be it a day or a year, people are determined. :(

[edhe]

Then you're a fool #3.

No matter how MS work at it there's an entire subculture dedicated to ripping their work apart. Be it for pirating reasons, or even just a challenge, nothing is 'safe' in the world of technology.

Not until qbits are commonplace.

[Lykon]

especially as M$ are often on the wrong side of the law themselves....get in there hackers lol

[Perkel]

then why ps3is unbreakable for modders ?:>

[Raz]

It isn't unbreakable by modders - it's that there's no good reason to bother. Like trying to reinvent the wheel. I can understand modding 360s though; the temptation to try and fix it yourself after the nth breakdown must be overwhelming.

As for piracy: the principle is the same as Macs and PCs. Macs are rarely hacked because PC is the dominant brand. If/when PS3 gets a bigger install base than 360...it'll get hacked.

[SilPho]

A large subset of the pirating scene like to crack machines so that they can execute their own code on there. This is possible with the older PS3s (not the slim ones).

While that didn't kill attempts to hack the PS3, I imagine it played a part in preventing too many hackers from trying. The PS3 can probably be hacked, but why bother when, for most people, there's nothing to gain

[siyrobbo]

the PS3 will get hacked eventually im sure, just like gamecube last gen, they will find a way, eventually...

[edhe]

ps3 can and will be hacked, there's just no real reason when there's better hardware for cracking cheaper on the shelves getting better versions of games with a superior online service.

As said above, the bigger the ps3 market the more likely it'll get hacked

[kaveti6616]

In school, whenever one person did something stupid, everyone got punished. I used to hate the teachers for doing that. Now I realize that the teachers were doing that so that we would hate the misbehaved children that much more. I hate these asshats who are modding to steal games. They justify their actions by saying the companies are ripping them off? They don't even have to buy the products if they don't think they are worth the price. Clearly, their minds have gone haywire, and now, they haven't learned their lesson. They will continue to find ways to cheat the system, which only ends up punishing everybody.

[djfullshred]

I don't know why people see the modders & hackers as some kind of Robin Hood characters, because they aren't. They certainly aren't doing it for the altruistic reasons they claim as some kind of justice against corporate tyranny. That is a lame boldface lie that only an idiot would believe. People steal software because they are crooks.

You are right that every honest customer is affected in the long run by piracy. The cheaters try to cozy up to the game communitity, acting as if they are a part of it, but they aren't. They only have what they have because we spend our money to support the industry. So by extension, they steal from us too.

[lsujester]

The reason for punishing a class isn't necessarily for hate, but its in hope of the class having some degree of self-regulation. If the guy next to you is doing something that will get everyone in trouble, wouldn't you try to stop him if you could? That's the point, not for you to hate him.

And guys, MS hasn't punished everyone... only the people who have specifically done something that MS says you can't do. Don't act like the whole Xbox community has suffered because a bunch of modders got banned... their actions aren't hurting you in the least bit. Yeah, getting banned because you put a different HD in the box probably sucks, but the people who do that and get on Live are fully aware that MS doesn't want you to do that.

Even the idea of developers losing a huge amount of sales is debatable because a large amount of people who pirate games never would have bought them in the first place. Yeah, they might have bought a few, but definitely not the dozens of games they likely have pirated.

Besides, most people have pirated copyrighted material at some point or another. Ever DL'd an mp3 you didn't pay for? Ever torrented a movie? Ever watch network TV from somewhere other than somewhere like Hulu? Ever filmed a screen and posted it on YouTube? Ever copied a music CD from a friend and gave it back to him? Ever got a digital copy of a movie and gave it to someone else? Old enough to had a tape deck.. remember how it easy it was to copy those? If you have ever gotten a piece of copyrighted material you didn't pay for, then you are a pirate... same as all the people that just got banned.

EDIT: Sorry for the rant. Just see too much hypocrisy lately. I see some people laugh and curse at Xbox modders, and then in another post blast the MPAA and RIAA for defending copyrighted material.

[kaveti6616]

"Don't act like the whole Xbox community has suffered because a bunch of modders got banned... their actions aren't hurting you in the least bit."

Yeah, I don't think you thought that part through. Companies like Activision raise the prices of games to "overcome" piracy. Obviously, this is going to cause more piracy, but the percentage of people who still continue to pay for their games doesn't decrease too much. Thus, Activision makes a major profit and then continues to complain about piracy. Guess why games used to cost $49.99 last gen and now cost &59.99.

Believe it or not, but piracy hurts the honest gamer community. If the game is overpriced, don't buy it. Just because you CAN obtain it for free, doesn't mean you should. And maybe you don't have those morals, I don't know.

[lsujester]

The price jump isn't really so much a piracy thing at all. It's a natural increase in price for the market. Cost of doing business is higher than it was five-ten years ago, so companies will naturally charge more for their products than they did then. The new prices were set as soon as the consoles were released, therefore long before the Xbox had its big piracy issues. Mark my words, even if the next generation of consoles are all completely hack-proof, we will still see prices rising more.

Developers may claim piracy is causing a loss of sales, and I can't disagree that it doesn't. But I'm also not naive enough to think that the overall industry would automatically go up 10% or more in overall revenue just because the box wasn't hackable.... because it wouldn't. You can't automatically assume every game that is DL'd would have been purchased otherwise, because there is no doubt that they would not have been. For instance, I downloaded Too Human. I hated the demo, so never would have bought it... but I got it for free so I gave it another chance.

Yeah, my argument wasn't laid out as nicely as I would have liked, but the point remains. Basically, I'm just saying that I don't think the piracy issue is quite as widespread and devastating as companies would like us to think. They have no way of knowing how many copies of their game were illegally downloaded, so piracy largely becomes an excuse. But ultimately it doesn't matter, because if it isn't piracy, it will be something else.

Much like the MPAA blaming all of its problems on pirates, while completely neglecting the fact that ticket prices have skyrocketed, movie quality has dropped with endless rehashes, and people generally have less spending money than they did just a few short years ago. The same with this industry... the more corporate it becomes, the more companies will press their will onto consumers. And then turn around and blame those consumers when they don't make as much as they would like to.

BTW, I'm not trying to justify pirating.. I know what I and others have been doing is wrong. I'm just trying to say that the knee-jerk reactions aren't necessarily that much better when the issue at hand is so much deeper.

[Stoney22]

You know not all of the people banned weren't pirating games. I bet A LOT of them simple decided to fix their own XBOX after the 5th+ time. Doing so isn't illegal. It might break one of the hidden T&C but then again Microsoft brought it on themselves for selling a faulty product and it's shocking they have yet to be prosecuting for it yet.
What if you didn't want to pay over 5-10 times as much on a HDD from Microsoft. What if you wanted to actually hear your games insted of a fan?
Don't be so angry and judgmental because SOME people wanted to fix their broken console so Microsoft banned them two days before the biggest game of the year hit.

[SKUD]

Welcome back!. LOL.

[Bloodshoteyz]

GO HACKERS!!!

[i3eyond the Circle]

MS has never EVER ever ever ever outdid hackers.

It takes MS months to one up hackers while it takes hackers a few days to one up MS.

[Gamer71]

...do ya think that might be because MS's antipiracy team is outnumbered my MILLIONS? Hackers have a subculture larger than some COUNTRIES. The Korean and Chinese governments PROMOTE hacking, and offer $$/incentives for hacking breakthroughs on international defense grids, banks, and various large corporations. THAT ALONE is enough for millions of kids to take interest in hacking...and it all starts with learning how to do "simple" hacks like this. MS really can't combat this effectively, without investing more than it's really worth to them.

[DirtyLary]

HAHAHHAHA

I bet so many shtty pirates got excited when they saw that headline.

Then a major letdown when they saw what they to accomplish. Burn in hell.

[ZombieAutopsy]

If u wanted to get it unbanned for cheap you could just buy someones Rrod'd xbox cheap and use its numbers or whatever u need. i see people selling them on craigslist all the time for like 25-40$

[PLAYSTATIONGENRATION]

PIRATES >>>> WIN

[HypnoticMonkey]

Yes because the average person will have the patience to do something like that.

[lsujester]

Most modders paid for someone else to do the work, anyway. It could easily be a case of giving the guy two boxes and paying him again.

[Johnny_Cojones]

Count yourself lucky that you are only banned from live, & not serving time for theft.

200 bucks for a replacement is chicken feed, considering the ratio of cost to entertainment it provides.

[mastiffchild]

If you were tight enough to mod the last one why would you be the kind of person to do that? I don't advocate modding your console(except in the cases where people have fitted better fans because they HAD to for noise reasons and other things that the warranty won't cover anyway)but think you underestimate how annoyed some people get with MS over the extortionate Live subs-and just how much some people just dislike MS.

Believe me. I know people who game quite happily on other systems but have always, ALWAYS had modded Xboxes. Partly it started because(where I live anyway)the US was getting games earlier than we did and people wanted the games quicker-that simple and then it went on so long it became a kind of tradition. I've got one acquaintnance who even loks on it as a game in iotself and you can't reason with that attitude and it's why MS should ban accounts as well as consoles.

Mainly, though, if someone was angry enough at MS to pirate in the first place can you really see them feeling any better towards them now? No way they'll just do it again. Also this banning does nothing to counter those who cheat in online games. The use of lad switches and modded controllers is getting worse all the time on Live AND PSN and I on't see how they can really do a great deal about it when , if they can fool the console they can basically fool MS too-they just pput the cheat device at a later place along their connection than the console if they're lag switching and there's similar things for other cheats.

Thenm again, why would MS care about that? They still get their money. Sadly, even we gamers are powerless against the cheats of this world and while I don't see what they get from cheating to be good they'll always do it. FFS I was watching my kid play MKWii the other day and people werecheating on THAT! One guy just ALWAYS seemed to have a blue shell! IDK how but that's what he was doing-hanging back a little and then letting it go over and over and over whenever someone got past him-where is the fun there?

[lsujester]

Yeah, but the cost of multiple games is NOT chicken feed, which is the major attraction of pirating them in the first place. I personally go through at least a game a week, sometimes multiple ones depending on work and what games are being played. I do buy some, but there is no way I could buy all the ones I go through... even if I got them from Craigslist, eBay, etc. I'm sure most modders are the same way.

[baodeus]

I think hackers have more experience with MS operating software because it is well known throughout the world. Who would want to hack apple OS? Not worth the time.

Piracy is bad for the economy and the recession isn't helping either. Hackers, don't make it worst then it already is.

[Serial_EDX]

They are like the Viagra of The 360. XD

[Xlll]

Poor MS. They can't even ban right....

[RuPaul]

It's not nearly as easy as the headline makes it sound.

I think MS is doing a fine job at stopping piracy.

[Major_Tom]

So how are they exactly stopping piracy by banning people off of Xbox Live?

[AngryTypingGuy]

@ XIII - Yeah, if you actually take time to read the very short article, you'd see that this is a risky, complex process, that actually requires you to have a second, non-banned console anyway. Very few people will do this or be able to do this.

[Xlll]

@AngryTypingGuy actually a modder buddy of mine has unbanned about 25 360's already for 60$ each.

[kevinx1000]

"So how are they exactly stopping piracy by banning people off of Xbox Live?"

if people know they're gonna get banned they'll think twice before pirating

[Major_Tom]

It hasn't deterred any one of my friends.

[kevinx1000]

your friends aren't the world you know...
i hate things like that. "i had no problems with firmware 3 the first 5 hours i used it so this is BS!!!!"

[AngryTypingGuy]

@XIII - Yeah, I'm sure he has. You're full of crap.

[TwistedMetal]

just everyone go out and get a ps3. then everyone will be happy becuase every online feature the x360 has can be put on the ps3 but not every feature on the ps3 can be put on the x360. moree people getting a ps3 means the quicker ps3 will get the 1 or 2 features x360 has that dont really matter in the first place compared to the many more feature ps3 has over the x360 and most of them are pure gameing related like dedicated servers.

[darkequitus]

You are missing the point. Modders do not want a PS3 because they would have to buy the games. They mod because they want the software for free.

So you get a second console to rob it of its ID. If for any reason both are online at the same time, they both get banned.

1. If the modder keeps it for themselves, then what is the point of unbanning the banned one.

2. If they return it to the shop, at some point both consoles are online at the same time, then boom!

[halo2_redvsblue]

Microsoft Has the power to fry your Motherboard as well so if they get caught again that will happen.

[condorstrike]

cause the PS3 is harder to hack, thanks to Blueray, they're not in the @ssjole level of Microsoft, and because it would cost you more to burn a game than to buy a used one.

most of these people mod so they don't have to buy, but I bet if the PS3 was hacked then half of you will try and mod it.

don't spit up cause it'll just fall back down on your face.

[Serial_EDX]

I agree, as soon as BR and BR burner drives because cheap, The ps3 will become hacked.

Its all about saving as much money as possible.

[UltimateIdiot911]

It's not bluray that makes it hard. There are PS3 game rips floating around. The only thing bluray will be an issue for pirate is size and the cost for a disc. It's the software that they haven't hacked yet.

[Elven6]

Blu Ray has been cracked, same with HD DVD. Blu Ray movies and games have been ripped and are on torrent sites. HOWEVER you can't play them on the PS3 because it hasn't been hacked yet.

Not all PS3 games take up all the space on a Blu Ray disc, with compression most games can fit onto a DVD if you really wanted (that's what PSP rippers did, compressed full games down to less than a gig). For larger files their is always the HDD, if someone wants something for free I doubt it would be much of an issue for them.

I do remember reading about a few PS3 exploits being found but,

A. A few of them were false reports.
B. I don't know if anything came of them.

[frostypants]

Maybe the PS3 isn't hacked as much because the PS3 doesn't nickel and dime its owners to death like the 360 does...$50 for a 20gb hard drive (PS3 can use any notebook hard drive, $60 will buy you 320gb)...$100 for a wireless adapter (comes w/ the PS3)...$20 for a rechargable battery pack (ps3 controllers have these built in)...$50 for online (free on PS3)...etc. It's ridiculous, especially given the PS3's current price point.

And to top it off, the 360 is cheaply built, loud, and fails at an unprecedented rate. All of this leads to a certain level of contempt and lack of respect towards Microsoft by 360 owners, however outwardly defensive they may be of their console.

ALL OF THAT SAID...I have no sympathy for pirates. If you don't like it, don't buy it. There's no excuse for theft.

I do have sympathy for people who installed their own hard drives to avoid being ripped off. They didn't steal anything.

[minikoopa]

I dont think the price is so much of an issue.

You can get a burner for like £70 and a its like £3 a disc.
So its not that big of an investment. You would make your money back after 2 games.

But I would not really fancy downloading a 25gb game at 100kb/s

I am more interested in the consoles being hacked for homebrew and running N64 maybe :)

[keysy420]

its probably why they have always had cards. people can basically do what ever they want in xbox live. im sure if i wanted to i could crash teh live system with s few bugs in their code. they do great programing but they do it the i learned this in my garage way.

[hatchimatchi]

over here in singapore you can get a 360 modded easily. Cheap too. Malaysia also mods stuff and bootleg games are cheap as can be.

That being said, i still don't own a 360 but most of my friends do. They don't want to buy a ps3 cause it can't be modded to play pirated games.

[blikz]

Not all people in Singapore and Malaysia play pirated games though...
And Ps3 sells in Malaysia is increasing..

[bjornbear]

THEY'RE BACK!

[Justin_bristoe]

haha man ms just spat in all those xbox faces hahahaha"xbox is the greatest!!""xbox rules""xbox hs the best costumer care!!!" they don't even know how many ppl have bought modded xboxes without knowing..lol it's just screw everyone,hahahahahaha this is knee slapping funny.

[N4PS3G]

Thank god for this!! My box got banned this week...sucks

[Immortal321]

power over pirates.

[Immortal321]

been alot of bad news for microsoft on N4G

[MrCrabPuss]

Well that didnt take too long. Probably wont last but well played fellows. You cant keep a good pirate sunk for long. YARRRRRR! LOOP HOLE AHOY ME MATEYS. Im not banned and to me it matters not either way as I dont use Live.

I love all these "pirates are the scum of the earth" types, when MOST (not all, but most) have downloaded music or movies or programs for free but counter with some weak self justified excuse like "its not the same as games because..." I hear it over and over again. As far as Im concerned a pirate is a pirate no mater what you download because more often than not somewhere it costs money to listen or to play or watch etc whatever it is you've downloaded. So if you're one of the "sparkly good guys" then good for you and keep your self righteous "Im better than you" bullsh1t blabbering to yourself. Nobody cares that you are the polished knight of righteousness prancing in on your grand steed of justice. We filthy terrible pirates couldn't care less about what a perfect shining example to mankind you are amidst the crooked filth of todays decrepid society. Go make a pilgramage to your mountain of salvation and pray for all the scum who have lost their way wont you? We're not listening.

[Hurrikane88]

They ripped plenty of people off with there shoddy hardware in the 360 and taxing people to play on live and over charging for accessories , who's rippin off who here ?

[Lykon]

well said , plus M$ have often been caught out on the wrong side of the law, they are no better than hackers

[Solotov]

To un-ban you have to buy another 360 that is not banned yet. And when you finally get your old console to be able to play on LIVE, it will most likely get banned again.

[cl63AMG]

wait... to unban your console you need a separate unbanned console??? Why not just use the new one?

EDIT: nvm the person right above me pointed it out already

[oldsnayke]

If you're banned for pirating games, then it's a well-deserved ban.

[sephcor9]

We've heard it all before about how the hackers are going to beat these software companies into the ground but does anyone seriously believe the fight won't continue? If someone broke into your car or house, would you throw your hands up in the air and say enjoy? Hell no (unless you're a pirate and see no problem with giving and taking like that). It's stealing plain and simple. These people are thieves; they know it and brag about it on forums like this. I hope they'll see the irony when someone else steals their car, their cash, their xbox or whatever. The pirates don't want to hear from people who pay for their stuff and the buyers don't want to hear the pirates whine about how the man is sticking it to them. What really irks me is when people post stories telling other people about how they can hack the systems and then they say they don't condone doing it. What a crock.

[Gwizz91]

I think Microsoft should ban the xbox console and the live accounts that way the damn pirates can lose everything they Accomplished =)

[lizard81288]

they would just need to make a new account. i figured it would only be a matter of time. now people who modded their 360's because of RRoD, can now play it once again. i have no idea if M$ ever fixed that, but people like to trick out there consoles. i don't mind modding, its not as bad a people say it is, if it was so bad, why are there several tv shows about modding cars and other technology? you don't see ford suing pimp my ride do you? or getting in a tizzy about it.

modders=/=pirates
so please people, stop saying that.

the video game industry is doing fine, hell, it makes more money than Hollywood.

plus the ps3 can play roms on it, so its hacked as well, so stop saying its not hacked, because it is. all current gen is hacked.

[PS360PCROCKS]

Lol ford suing you for 'modding' your car is not the same as modding an xbox. The purpose of modding a car is to make it what you want, the sole purpose of modding an xbox is to play free games. That was a terrible example, you fail.

[lizard81288]

what about the people who modded their 360 to fix the RROD, or add a bigger harddrive, or put a fan in it?..

granted you still need to buy a new 360 though.

[PS360PCROCKS]

Is this a response to me? I'm going to assume it is...Adding fans, adding hard drives and fans is not bad. Don't reasonably stand their and pretend like what we're talking about is that stuff. Were talking about for games, that and that alone. If your dumb enough to open the box, you deserve what you get.

[Enigma_2099]

... THIS will end well, I'm sure.

[Lykon]

M$ scam everyone with broken hardware and push the law to the limits with corrupt marketing, in and out of courts for years. Now there getting a thrashing by hackers. disgusting company deserve everything coming to them

[moja]

Nice copy and paste job from the forums, jack@sses. Don't even possess the understanding to translate the post into your own content.

Anyway, possible doesn't equate practical in this case. It's just a proof-of-concept speculation. It would be interesting to see if this could evolve, though.

[ShiftyLookingCow]

I think you are the only guy who knows what you are talking about.

On Orig Topic: If someone can pay 50 bucks every year for Xbox live(and can even pay for a new console after getting banned) then choose and buy one or two games every year carefully and be happy with them.

[Raoh]

mine got banned, had in store warranty though, took it in got a new one no questions asked.. but i dont think i want it anymore. going to sell it and the accessories so i can get a second ps3. and the games i cant play cause i dont have a 360 i'll just start getting for the pc instead..

[darkequitus]

Poor thief for getting you Xbox banned.

[justlikeme]

Something tells me the people who are banning people at MS are the same people who are able to hack the 360 in order to keep their job.

[FxckOSX]

someone got a business.

[Mizz_mai]

im happy for my modded xbox unhappy for MS and the xtards

[napoleon_ist]

in the end the average joe will remain crying with a banned xbox360 and $60 wasted... :|

[cpuchess]

Must be something automated that bans them in the first place. I would guess Microsoft would just rerun it on a scheduled basis to overcome this.

[Young Capwn]

maby if all the games weren't 5 hours long with garbage graphics....

people would buy them

[Silber]

Ban them all:)

But these Modders are really clever today... I respect their work, but this is not for good.. They shoud do better things with their skills.

[avengers1978]

If this is true and not a lie how long do you think it will take Microsoft to figure it out and ban them again. It won't take long, and eventually will force microsoft to abandon the 360 in favor of a format that is harder to pirate, causing most people to be pissed, it will happen, when game developers begin to exsclude your console from there line up because the actually want to sell the game instead of have people steal it. Boardlands, is one of those games, no copies pirated on the ps3 because its never been hacked. What's the chances that the next boarderlands is a PS3 Exclusive, pretty damn good. Modding the xbox is simple and easy and I know that is why most bought it to begin with, but you will only cause microsoft to bail out on the 360 faster then they were planning to.

[teto83]

if MS wants to ban piracy at least for a while the solution is simple....is called blue ray.

[KRonicBong]

Microsoft for the last couple months have been getting a lot of bad news on here. I can't help but laugh sit back, smoke on some chronic, and play MAG exclusive on the PS3.

People who have a PS3, go out and get the beta for MAG or get it at release in January. It's hell-a fun.

[KRonicBong]

It's called Blu-Ray** And if your looking for Blu-Ray i suggest getting the PS3, knowing Micosoft it'll be built like a piece of sh-t.

[Domer25]

i didn't even think that sh!t was possible. The talent of some individuals is insane.

[hiredhelp]

sony's on thr rise i would expected this to be last thing for microsoft to do.so if they ban a console at say in uk that costs between £150 and £200 and you send your console off to get it remodded costing around 30-50 to have done surely people stop think well lets get a ps3 from £230 go online for free sure games be full price but saved buying 360 everytime microsft does a update.

or do like i used to b4 ps3 buy few orignals for online rest copys offline. yes microsft are greedy too competitive

[Lipscomba]

We'll post how to do this, but don't this is illegal!! That's rich, I'll say!!!

[tojfrd7931z]

Hate Microsoft so much then why are you using a windows based operating system? (Just sayin?)

[davidadrake]

Won't work for anyone that has updated their system within the last 3 months, which everyone who was recently banned has done.

[darkequitus]

Quoted directly from xboxscene
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Unbanning Xbox 360 From Live - The Facts
>> I see lots of sites posting today about a way to unban Xbox 360 from LIVE often linking to a thread made on our forums here.

This method has been known for a long time (since the King Kong Exploit days) and does indeed 'work'. Basically you swap the Keyvault (or 'KV' in short, it stores stuff like console certificates, per-box private keys, DVD key, etc) inside the NAND with the KV from an unbanned console. While technically very different you could somewhat compare it to swapping eeprom data during the Xbox1 days.

However there's a (really) big 'IF' (besides the required tech knowledge) ... you need the (unique) CPU key of your banned console - without it you can't correctly write (or encrypt if you want) the new KV data in the NAND bin of your banned console.
Now you wonder how to get the CPU-key ... well by running XeLL of course!
To run XeLL u need to perform the JTAG hack (or the King Kong exploit, but that's even more outdated) ... and if you got banned the last few weeks it means you updated to the latest dashboard/kernel (else you can't get on LIVE).
And that's the problem... Microsoft patched the JTAG hack since kernel 849x (July 2009) ... so no way to boot up XeLL (= no realistic way for you to get the CPU-key atm) and thus no way to swap the KV data in your NAND image.
And then there's also added KV protection (hashing) on newer motherboards (Falcon+ ? and kernel 1888 won't boot on those), but if you can't even get your CPU-key it doesn't matter much to do deeper into this problem.
The only way it would work is if you retrieved the CPU-key of your old banned 360 before you updated to anything over 849x. If you did that you probably know about all of this and I'm not telling you anything new ;)
Downgrading kernel is not an option either, older kernels won't boot as both kernel and CB fuses were burned during the various updates MS performed, and you can't bypass that without ... your CPU-key.

Hope that explains the situation a bit (tried to make it not 'too' technical)
On a side-note, it would probably be pretty easy for MS to detect KV-swaps (like HW-mismatches etc).
Side-note2: in case it wasn't obvious yet those "unban isos" are fake and iXtreme LT won't unban you (it will instead try to avoid new bans)."

[xboxlover]

the link is down

[CallMeMilenko601]

why do i have a feeling that half the people who have commented on this have already been banned for modding, but decided to buy another xbox and actually buy games again. -__-