So here's the Nintendo modding fiasco all over again... Only, not quite, but it's still similar in principle.

People mod their Xbox against Microsoft's warnings because "durn it, its my console and I have a right to do what I want to it lolol". Microsoft bans said Xboxes from Xbox Live because they have modified consoles. Maybe because Microsoft has a right to ban you when you break the rules you were supposed to read and actually agree to? Hmm. Novel approach.

Some people are also ticked off that Microsoft banned the actual console and not the Xbox Live username. Well, duh? Why ban the name when people will just sign up under another name with the same console? It's not the name that's broken, it's the console.

But come on, Xbox Live has always been crazy with modded Xboxes! When I did some research and modded my old Xbox to run Linux, it was posted all over the place that Xbox Live didn't LIKE you doing that and that you shouldn't play Xbox Live with a modded console! So when I signed up for Xbox Live, I UNmodded my Xbox. Been perfectly fine.

This is just one of those "duh" things people are upset about because it somehow infringes on their constitutional rights or something like that... It's like trying to play a game with a no-CD crack applied! You just can't play online. Sometimes you can, but mostly you can't, and it's just an accepted fact that you don't try. (If you do, bad things can happen, especially if there's a subscription involved.)

Honestly... these people are smart enough to mod their consoles without destroying them (except in the case of the Paper Mario thing), but they thought they were safe using Xbox Live? Heheh...

Man, there's a lot of news flying around that involves stupid people, isn't there? Stupid people blaming the company for what they did without regard to warnings.