sean1818

In reply to the 22nd comment about modding and microsoft's "loss". Firstly most systems are sold at a "loss" and it is undetermined what Microsoft is actually losing if anything at all (the loss is assumed by an independant agency guestimating what microsoft "could" pay for the system to be manufactured) Roughly 90% of the people I know that have modded their systems do it for reasons far beyond that of piracy. Yes piracy is possible, but assuming that someone would purchase a game if they weren't able to recieve an illegitamate copy for cheaper or virtually nothing is naive, many people that do engage in piracy admit that they wouldn't have, in the first place, purchased the game due to their inability to afford it. So assuming the other 10% of the modding community which is an extemely small fraction of the owners of xbox would have purchased their microsoft software without the ability to pirate you wind up with less than 1% of microsoft's profits lost to it. The difference between bits and bucks is immense, and the false claim's made by companies "suffering" piracy is absurd. Lastly my "modded" xbox has been more than simply a "cheap pc" as you refer to it. My xbox honing a 250 gigabyte hard drive, has applications allowing me to control all my media from one central location, it tunes into internet radio stations, records live television, plays back all video formats, loads games faster and plays/switches between them easier than the original design of flipping through discs, I OWN about 60 retail purchased xbox games, every single one of my games are downloaded onto my hard drive and played with better performance through my hard drive, I can reset my xbox in the middle of the game with the controller, switch to music or a movie, engage in various outlets of online play WIHTOUT xbox live or a PC involved. I can stream digital media, emulate my favorite older consoles (NES GENESIS ATARI!!!) I can run an operating system to allow me to use common pc programs such as irc, internet browsing, etc...all from the comfort of my living room couch. I love my modded xbox, and i also own an untouched xbox which I use to play on xbox live with my games which costs me 50 bux a year, that i'm glad to pay to MS for their wonderful LIve experience. I feel no shame for what i've done to and with my xbox, and MS profits greatly from my enthused love of my console, if i didn't like it so much i probably wouldn't have spent all that cash on it... profit loss..pfft, they should be MAKING the modchips IMO. /rant

Seem's to me that they're making it easier, rather than harder for modders to make their way into the xbox security, now all one needs to do is gain access to the hypervisor and viola you've unlocked the entire potential of the xbox. Though it will most likely require a "hard" mod to the motherboard to compromise it, I doubt that will take long at all, nothing is impenetrable, and new security measures only lengthen the amount of time it takes to obliterate them.