{"id":4802,"date":"2009-11-10T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"microsoft-bans-600k-xbox-live-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/4802-microsoft-bans-600k-xbox-live-accounts","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft bans 600k Xbox Live accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rumours have surfaced that Microsoft is currently disabling Xbox Live accounts based on the results of a legitimacy checking system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/pinoycosplay.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/microsoft-bans-600k-xbox-live-accounts.html?zx=5c8d5c029c0a334a\">Pino Cosplay<\/a>, Microsoft the company has banned 600,000 accounts in the US and Canada thus far, with a view to banning almost a million by the end of the month. It appears that the users which are being targeted have modified consoles. These consoles allow users to play pirated Xbox 360 games.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our office has gone to hell,&#8221; says a source in a Microsoft call centre. &#8220;People have been calling in around the clock and most of them are screaming teenagers who don&#8217;t understand the terms of use that comes with the console they bought.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ps3news.com\/XBox-360\/more-on-xbox-live-bans-hdd-crippling-possible-ban-causes\/\">PS3 News<\/a> the Xbox Live ban will result in a total ban from Xbox Live and reduced functionality while streaming from a Windows Media Player PC.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is currently unclear whether Microsoft intends to begin deleting Xbox Live accounts in the rest of the world. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?t=3660\">Microsoft bans 600k Xbox Live accounts<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chipped consoles targeted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}