Updates: On LIVE bans, possible ban causes, more

The ongoing Console Live Ban Wave on XBL has elicited a lot of shock and disbelief from Xbox Live customers, particularly with modded consoles. A lot of questions are swirling about as well, and we can imagine plenty of you guys have screamed out in anguish, “Why meeeeeeeeeeeee???” Well, Kushan of #FW@EFnet gave us a little bit more insight as to what this ban entails, so if you’re one of them who got the banhammer’s kiss of death, read on.

The ongoing Console Live Ban Wave on XBL has elicited a lot of shock and disbelief from Xbox Live customers, particularly with modded consoles. A lot of questions are swirling about as well, and we can imagine plenty of you guys have screamed out in anguish, “Why meeeeeeeeeeeee???”

Well, Kushan of #FW@EFnet gave us a little bit more insight as to what this ban entails, so if you’re one of them who got the banhammer’s kiss of death, read on. A quick overview of the effects of the ban would show that your banned console can no longer do the following:

• Cannot go on Xbox Live
• Cannot install games to the HDD
• Cannot use Windows Media Centre extender
• Cannot be used to get achievements from backups without corrupting your profile

What can you do to get around this problem? Pretty much nothing. As Kushan puts it, “You can’t do anything about this, short of buying a new 360.”

As to the causes of the bans, there have been a lot of theories thrown out there to answer for this question. c4eva of iXtreme had these to say:

<+c4eva> fw itself not detectable
<+c4eva> suspect they are going hard on warez releases and incorrect use of abgx!
<+c4eva> just to let you know that im looking into the current ban wave. I am currently running several brand new xboxs on live! These xboxs are in various configs. All are running ixtreme 1.61
<+c4eva> One is running original discs, another is running on xbl (no discs) , another is running a backup from my region!
<+c4eva> until tests are completed, no eta on liteon fw!

As it is, though, these are not confirmed and are purely conjectures, logical and plausible as they may be. An investigation is ongoing right now to get to the bottom of this ban wave, so we’ll just be sure to update you once we here more. In the meantime, yeah, it sucks.

To read more about Kushan’s findings, head over to the source link below.

Thanks to tipster Jaavan G.!

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Via Xbox-Scene