Microsoft Responds to Xbox Live Banning Lawsuit
Last week we told you that a law firm had decided to file a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for banning Xbox 360 owners from Xbox live who were using modded consoles.
Microsoft has responded to the law firm, here is what they have to say about the lawsuit, and from the looks if it Microsoft doesn’t seem particularly worried.
“Microsoft is well within its legal rights to ban these users from Xbox Live,” a Redmond spokesperson has since said, prompting speculation that the software giant feels unthreatened by the potential lawsuit – although it didn’t refer directly to Abington IP.
“Piracy is illegal and modifying an Xbox 360 is a violation of the Xbox Live Terms of Use,”
It still remains to be seen whether the lawsuit will actually go ahead, as the law firm in question is waiting for enough banned Xbox 360 owners to come forward.
I guess it shouldn’t take them to long, to get enough people, as reports are now suggesting that around 1 million Xbox 360 owners have been banned from Xbox live.
November 24th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
How does this affect people buying a banned box, say on ebay, as then it’s not the owner of the box who might have done something with it?
(Compare to buying a car that have been used to speed on a highway)
January 10th, 2010 at 12:23 am
instead they should just have scans that delete illegal content, which would save someone from getting software that they thought was benign and getting baned for it.
January 24th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
there is a problem with that
like apple that can result in unknown results
(apple iphone 2.0 firmware bricked some jail broken iphones)
AND THEN the people would just remod the console