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Modern Warfare 2 Ridiculous Knife Kill

Hats off to this guy. I wonder if he’s considering joining the military.

-Christian

Xbox Live Class Action Investigation

Abington Law Firm is currently investigating the possibility of starting a Class Action suite against Microsoft, seeking possible reparations caused from the massive bannings of Xbox Live customers using a “modded” version of the Xbox system to play pirated games.

Tens of thousands of Xbox owners have had their modified Xbox consoles banned from Microsoft’s Live service. Although modification of Xbox consoles is against the terms of use for Xbox/Xbox Live, Abington feels that Microsoft “conveniently” timed the Xbox console ban to occur just after the release of the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 game and less than two months after the release of the very popular Halo 3: ODST game.

This “convenient” timing may have resulted in far more Xbox Live subscription revenues from Microsoft than it would have generated had these Xbox console bans taken place at some time before the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Halo 3: ODST. Additionally, sales of both COD and Halo would likely have been greatly diminished had the Xbox console ban occurred prior to the release of these games.

While Abington does feel that Piracy is a very LEGITIMATE concern for Microsoft and other content producers, they feel that Microsoft has chosen to use on of the most indiscriminate “weapons” in its arsenal in an effort to combat piracy – as a result, the use of this “weapon” has resulted in a great deal of collateral damage – many people were affected who had nothing to do with piracy and Xbox console functions that have nothing to do with piracy were also affected or disabled. Details aside, Microsoft’s bans could have been more measured.

Side Note:
Personally I think the facts are simple. It violates the systems terms of use, and also the Xbox Live services terms. They could just have easily R.R.O.D’ed all these systems, but instead they only banned them from the Xbox Live service. Essentially they are saying: Want to play online? Buy the game, otherwise have fun playing with yourself.

I’m sure there was some “collateral” damage like Abington says though, I’ve seen numerous reports of people getting banned for doing a simple fan hack to improve the cooling in their systems.

If you are an Xbox Live subscriber, had your modified Xbox console banned from Xbox Live, were not refunded a prorated sum for the time left on your subscription or have experienced other problems as a result of being banned, and would like to participate in a class action against Microsoft, Abington Law asks that you follow the link bellow and fill out the Contact Form to receive more information if they can get this lawsuit moving forward.

http://www.abingtonlaw.com/Xbox-Live-class-action.html