Dummy Xbox Live accounts blocked, not banned

Bah, just tunnel through to a server in the US and carry on downloading. Not a problem.

What about american servicemen stationed overseas?

I have a question...... I live in southamerica in my xbox i cant put my country sow i have it registered as USA...... whats going to happen to me?????

use a proxy server

"use a proxy server"
Thank you captain obvious, I would hope it's not that simple.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/26

"Bah, just tunnel through to a server in the US and carry on downloading. Not a problem."

How?

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I live in Greece where Xbox Live doesn't even exist so I'm registered under my friends grandmothers house (yeah bigtime lol) so would that affect me? Or are they just doing it continent or country by country.

It's not a big truck! TUBES!

This is just mean. First they do the entirely brainless approach of limiting content by geographic region, ignoring all people who are interested in other cultures... now they're actively seeking those people out and making them unhappy for no other reason than they want them to be unhappy.

How about this? Internationalize the Xbox Live Marketplace. It desperately needs a redesign anyway (New Releases doesn't know what releases I've seen before? How stupid is that?). Add an International section, and let us with an interest in the "Japan-exclusive" content access it and buy it if we so desire.

Licensing issues? Stop being idiots and buying localized licenses then. Make it known that global licensing is the only thing you're interested in.

Region coding on a service that runs over the Internet is just ludicrous. One of the primary advantages of the Internet is the fact that it makes geography irrelevant. USE that advantage rather than fight it, MS!

I think this is crap. If Microsoft would stop playing games with the consumer, and just let people download all the same materials, there wouldn't be a problem at all. Obviously people have a problem with it if they're doing it in such great numbers that Microsoft has had to block it off.

The site never said it is a fact they would ban them. They said blocking/deleting because they didn't know what will happen. That seems to be a translation error made by some us sites.

But it doesn't matter, fake accounts were only made to access foreign marketplaces and MS found a way to end this.

It actually "IS" as simple as using a proxy server. Though each time you switch user names you are going to have to enable and and disable it for different regions. If you want access to Japanese content use a proxy server located in Japan so you are reporting a Japanese IP address.

I read they were only checking the credit card address. Just buy a prepaid card and dont give them your credit card details !