Alright, to everyone saying "Its their hardware, you just pay to use it". Or "They have the right to blow up your xbox if they wanted to", or whatever:
Break out from your corporate brainwashing. Please.
Just because its the law, doesn't make it right. Just because its a breach of an agreement that no one ever reads and no one expects you read, doesn't make it right.
Understand that while you play by the rules, while you try to live your life honestly... Microsoft is not. Nor have they ever.
Corporate interests practically rule how these laws are created. Think about this: You aren't allowed to circumvent copyright protection to make backups, NOT because it is in the best interest of the people, but because it is in the best interest of the profitability of these companies.
How completely unfair is that? Corporate interests are consistently put before the needs of the people.
These same corporations who claim you're stealing something from them, who label you a pirate just because you have backups of your games, steal from you literally every day. They circumvent the laws, weasel through loopholes, steal IP, strong-arm small competition, hide money, and use plenty of underhanded tactics to hold on to every last possible cent. Usually at the cost of taxpayers because the money they should be paying in taxes, and the money they ARE paying in taxes is usually a massive gap.
Corporations crying about piracy, cry me a river. It makes me sick every time I read people siding with MS to such a degree that they believe its perfectly fair for corporations to do whatever they like simply because they paid off the right people to implement the laws that way.
The people should look out for the people, and the interests of the people. The corporations have their own backs pretty well.
That being said, I feel its perfectly fine that MS banned people from the Live service. Its their service to do with, what they please. All things being fair, they should have to give pro-rated refunds, because it isn't like that $50 you paid is going to you using the service anymore... And even if they didn't technically ban your account, they basically prevented you from using the service, unless you buy something new.
As for the functionality bans, its just pure bs. They have the ability to do it, they might even have the legal right and even if they don't, they have the legal power to have that right regardless. But its not fair at all.
Everything we've known up until today would state that what we own, we have the legal right to do with however we'd like. The fact that we don't, is a corporately sponsored law.
And yes, most of these people being banned, pirate games instead of just using it for the backups.
But the major issue here is how these corporations feel they can do whatever they want. Thats the big issue. The minor issue are pirates. Funny thing though, if corporations didn't circumvent so many laws to pay less taxes, to effectively steal from the people.. then everyone would have to pay less taxes.
And they'd have more money for games.
Everything ain't so cut and dry, black and white.
This post has been edited by jgtevo: Nov 21 2009, 06:32 AM
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