MS can impliment modchip detection any time they please. People need to stop worrying when this will happen. It will happen when they decide. When it does, like when Sony implimented mod detection, there will be patches for the games, or a new bios that will mask its ID, you know, something will come out.. I have been in these types of "scenes" since the early 80's, yes, 80's, and NOTHING has changed. It is still a cat and mouse game. Remember on C64 when they made the floppies you could not copy, then the copyboard (forgot the name, hardware) came out so you could copy the floppies. It's been going on before that, and will continue to go on until the world is not run by profit, which will probably be never.