BBC news published an article, "Microsoft disconnects Xbox gamers", that may affect gamers who are now consuming pirated games.
Microsoft bans gamers who modified their Xbox360 console game to play pirated game from accessing the internet. The players, who have been banned, cannot connect their console to the internet that means they can't play online games and cannot access to other services from Microsoft Xbox Live, but they still can play games offline. Microsoft suggested that about 0.03 percent of gamers modified their console to play illegal games however it's not all of them are banned. Although Xbox360 console have Digital Rights Management technologies to detect illegal software, Players can modified their Xbox360 by installing an additional chip or device that enable users to play pirated games. Microsoft claims that they can check whether if machine is modified or not, and then ban the users when they log in to Xbox Live service. And they also suggested that pirated games cause damages to games industries not less than £750m a year
Piracy is a serious issue in software development industries. Nowadays, they are many preventives to this situation, however they are many developers or hackers inventing new technologies or devices against the preventives as well. What Microsoft is doing now is only one step to fight the piracy. It seems that it is not quite effective enough because all of the Xbox games can be played offline, online playing is just an additional feature of some games. But I've recently heard that some players, who get banned, don't just have problems accessing to the internet but they claimed that they can't use embedded hard disk in Xbox360 as well. Hard disk in Xbox360 is used for installing game from discs, So the performance of the machine of playing games this way is better than playing game from disc directly. For instance, loading time is shorter, Heat generated from machine is less. Even Microsoft doesn't officially announce this approach yet, But It's also a good one. It can reduce the new players who want to modify their console. War between software developers and hackers seems to never end. The important thing is that we have to encourage people that piracy is a crime and hope they will not support the pirated software anymore.
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