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| So now it could have been 999,999 "pirates" and "verbal harassers" (aka, trash talkers)? Great, Microsoft wants to impede upon freedom of speech as well, just because we click "I Agree." I hope that lawsuit tears a good chunk out of them. |
Are you dense? Are you retarded or something?
The "million users banned" was a made up metric with absolutely no backing whatsoever. They haven't released figures, and probably won't. It was a huge wave of bans, but I seriously doubt it was that large.
First off, the only mention of people getting booted for verbal harassment was a bad attempt at snark-humor at the end of a 1up article. Second, you have no freedom of speech. The government cannot restrict speech (and the few exceptions are very very limited). Private business, however, can freely limit speech. In this case, it is not only spelled out in the Code of Conduct, it is also further spelled out specifically in the Xbox Live Terms of Use. They have as much right to ban users for verbal harassment as any other service. You can get banned from a message board for violating board codes. If you have a freebe message board or web site, you can get banned for violating the TOS. Its clearly spelled out what you can't do, and they give you numerous chances with the conduct TOS violations before they boot you off (ie: loss of voice for X amount of time, temp. bans, etc).
And yeah, by clicking "I Agree," and this is the thing you're just not getting, YOU AGREE TO THEIR TERMS OF SERVICE. If you don't agree with them, you're free to just not buy an Xbox or use Xbox Live. You're free to go to Sony's setup, where you agree to the same restrictions, or you can go to Nintendo, where you agree to similar/the same restrictions (based on if they ever implement voice chat).
What are you not understanding about this? You agree to the terms before you use the service.
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Oh yeah. After much freezing as of late, my friend's 360 had a flashing red ring. It was turned off and on, was still there, and once more he turned it off and on, at which time the ring disappeared. I think the damn thing is dying and he's thinking about selling it.
He said he bought it new at retail about a year ago. Around Thanksgiving I believe. And the problem occurred just less a few days ago. |
If he had a red ring issue, tell him to go here:
Xbox NXE Hardware, Xbox LIVE, Games & Media Support | Xbox Support At tha site, he can set up a repair order. They'll fix it for free. If he bought it last year from first market retail (meaning not used from Gamestop or something), he should still be covered.