New Xbox 360 hacked to play 'backup' discs, public release underway? (video)
By Sean Hollister 
posted August 15th 2010 5:57PM
posted August 15th 2010 5:57PM
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@Cupid Stunts
The most meaningful thing you will ever do, ever.
@Cupid Stunts
Yes and the first to get down-ranked
@Cupid Stunts
Yes. Yes, you are the first lameass to write first
@Nitesh
Pirates or not. I have two three 360's in my house and my brother continues to take my copy of COD to play on his 360. I'd say sometimes making back up disks is just practical. Would you buy another copy of the same game in my position?
@BrownSound Yes. Buying one car doesn't mean your brother can drive another out of the car yard to keep too.
@Cupid Stunts Y'know, when you switch the first letters of your username.... It looks like you weren't thinking about your name were you?
@NuklearPanda Supid Ctunts?
@BrownSound "two three 360's"? =O You have two Xbox 1080s?!
@Cats Only problem is... you cant scan and make a 2nd car at your home. So I wouldn't call your example a very good one, for it to be similar he would have to walk out of a store with 2 games... Which would be theft.
Burning a copy of a game he already owns would be more along the lines of a Seamstress making a imitation Chenille bag for her own personal use based on one she already bought. While she assembles the bag from her own materials she took the design from the original.
@Reluttr You mean he will write entire game again in XNA/.net and will compile and extract it on dvd just like making another bag from the same bag design? sorry it would be an illegal thing bigger than pirating because software's have patent unlike bags, also you will not stick a D&G fake logo on the second bag, would you?
@Cats I know that in Australia it is legal to make backups of copyrighted content for your own use so technically if you make a backup if the game to preserve the original they should let you play the backup.
@BrownSound
Microsoft say : please, you have to/ should be/ will hopefully buying another copy of the same game for 2 xbox
@Nitesh
Angry much?
@Cupid Stunts
Pointless troll, much?
@Cats
http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2010/07/court-breaking-drm-for-a-fair-use-is-legal.ars
Court: breaking DRM for a "fair use" is legal
@BrownSound
As long as you're in the same house I don't think its an issue.
@engadget
Yes it is. You're allowed to make a backup.
@Cupid Stunts
At least your name is funny.
@AlwaysThere Sorry guys. I had to do it once. I've got it out of my system now.
And the banhammer shall strike again...
@satbir I'm sure they will
OH - MY - GOD!
I've been waiting for this since the Slim's leaked mainboard shots and ppl said this will never get hacked or at least in a year or so...
And now I'm reading this article on my birthday... I'm speechless...
thank you. thank you very much Xecuter, C4E and Team Jungl
these guys > geohot
EPIC WIN!
@satbir
Plenty of people have been flashing their drives with the new firmware since the last major ban wave (when a bunch of people were banned w/ MW2). Microsoft will always retaliate, but that's obviously not stopping people. Regardless, if you don't have the money to pay for a new Xbox when you DO get banned, then you shouldn't do it anyway.
@satbir The stupid thing is how hard they worked to prevent "piracy" this time, but all they really prevented was homebrew, and piracy is probably just as rampant this time around as it was with the Xbox. The DVD drive hacks are harder than the soft mods but still are pretty affordable.
*sigh* I hope the next gen will have a more open application infrastructure now that "app stores" are popular with phones; then again, knowing Microsoft they probably won't be very open (XNA is not open).
id rather run them straight off a hard drive these double layers are expensive!
@greggoo
Or take what we can get. :P
@greggoo So are the hard drives
@greggoo
I already have most of my games installed on my HDD, it would be great if I could just click on them and play them instead of having to put a new disc in just so it can verify I own the game. It would be sweet if they came up with like a master disc for this hack.
Though I don't want it to be like games on demand where I don't own a physical copy that I can resell or loan out to someone. Also I don't want to do this hack because I like playing on Live.
....yeah I guess I am just impossible to please /end rant.
@greggoo Expensive? What? Are you living in Pakistan, or do salaries really go that low in the western world?
Or do you burn +300 discs per day?
Cheezus...
@USSLiberty Salaries really do go that low.
@USSLiberty
theyre like 2 bucks a pop man if you buy in bulk... it adds up! plus some of the games aren't worth 2 bucks hahah
@greggoo jtag = automatic ban.
@rplush
not to mention hard to get, too
Cool... Is it me, or is there a bit of a tech drought this weekend?
@something
They are all recovering from the Star Wars Convention in Orlando, FL?
@something
i too feel the river getting lower
c4eva !!!!
Get ready for a large influx or banned consoles on eBay in the next month or two...
@iTzNicholas72
Thats what I was going to ask... does modding the drive firmware make you detectable for an XBL ban?
@EskimoPie
Yes they have done it before
@iTzNicholas72
Sounds like my time to buy a 360 to play exclusives. PSN 4evar!
@NCase lol... blu-ray player 4eva Dog... Yeah!!!
SweeT , but i feel a ban hammer coming up next :(
I'd hack it just to keep all my discs from being scratched by the disc reader, and use the burned discs instead...
@Wiizer
But if you use Xbox Live, you will get banned...
Lol, Wiizer you cease to amaze me.
Try that on the Stiq and I can guarantee you will get down-ranked, here, not so much. Engadget doesn't have a fanboy alert.
@Wiizer when someone says my 360 scratched my discs what they are actually saying is 'i'm an idiot, and i love moving my consoles around the house while they are reading discs'. scratched disc = dumbass.
maybe this will be unpopular, but articles that have a potential for piracy anywhere in them usually make a big point of saying how piracy is not the main function of what is being discussed, or the like. I doubt a major news site could get a way of saying 'wohoo free games on 360 now!' but still, isn't it a fact that many many people who read engadget will engage (hah) in a bit of torrenting now and then? shouldn't that be admitted? instead there's always some kind of pseudo self righteous person in the comments who writes in all caps I FOR ONE HAVE NEVER EVEN DOWNLOADED A PHOTO ILLEGALLY
just wondering what people think.
@safe travels
Well besides in most country's it is illegal to make copy's anyway which Engadget doesn't seem to realise thats the case.
All Engadget doe's with these articals is spreading news to all yhese pirates.
@safe travels
I'd say that fills the "pseudo self righteous" quotient for this article.