No matter where you actually stand on the whole piracy issue, there are a few things that will always be the same.
Your going to have people who want everything for nothing.
Your going to have people trying to control what other people can or can not do, and what they have or don't have in life.
In America we have it pretty nice right now, but things are quickly and frighteningly changing and our freedoms are being stripped from us every day.
We are starting to see what other countries are talking about when it comes to Freedoms, and slowly we are seeing them taken away from us in America.
Privacy today is non exsistent if you allow your eyes to truely see what is happening today.
Phone taps, unlawful random searches and confiscations, e-mail spying, cameras in public, personal information being collected and used against ourselves by others, and our own stupidity in letting them get away with it and trusting that which lies and cheats to control what we do, say, see, and hear.
Modchips will always be a part of computer technology. Car modifications are done, even though they are illegal, computer modifications are not far off from this same area.
We do it becasue WE CAN people. Its not always about stealing, and freeloading off the software companies. It's about making something our own, different, unique in a world so screwed up with the idea that we all should be identical and robotic and mindless.
Tatoos, piercings, hair dye, clothing, cars, computers, all these things are image setters, and extensions of our inner selves.
Those of us know and respect each others differences, its what makes us so dam interesting. We know and respect the companies programming the games we love to play. Those of us know that we support them by purchasing their software,
modchip or not.
Those that freeload need to understand this, and respect this, and support the games you freeload, because if you do not, you will slowly kill off the one thing we all love, Gaming.
MS has an invested interest in holding some profit, and LIVE is all the profit they need. To cut and ban those people in those numbers, is utterly stupid.
So MS does exactly what everyone would do, they strike a comprimise.
Modchip users do not screw with Live, and MS doesn't screw with them.
You boot under a modchip and try to mess with Live, your banned, rightfully so.