when everyone is doing it?!

When people find an easy alternative way to get something free. There going to do it.

You will always remember this as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow

Piracy is supposedly rampant on the 360, fanboys act like it's killng the platform...yet games STILL sell in the millions. Multiplatform games tend to sell better on 360, REGARDLESS of piracy.

Gears 2: leaked a full MONTH prior to launch, yet it STILL sells nearly 5 million, in only 6 months.

FarCry 2: leaked weeks in advance, yet the 360 was the top selling platform

Fallout 3: Ditto

RE5: Leaked, yet keeping pace with the PS3 version...even though no RE game has ever been on MS platform.

COD:WAW : Pirated weeks early, yet 360 is in the lead by over 2 million units.

It just reinforced 2 things:

1.) You can't stop pirates, if they want something bad enough.

2.) 360 games are simply in higher demand than PS3 games, because the PS3 isn't as established as a gaming platform. The #s don't lie.

and Nintendo and Sony... Why is MS always singled out when it comes to piracy on their console?? They've been pirating on Nintendo and Sony's platforms for more than a decade.. PS3 hasn't been hacked yet, but it's coming. There has never been a lock that hasn't been picked.

ms singled out cause its true lol everything they bring out is to easy for hackers to hack it and its not because they want it so bad its just noone wants to pay for low quality games that arent worth money and! its dvd9, way to easy to for people to buy cd's and burn it themselves and the cd's are cheap you can buy them pretty much anywhere. so there you go

nintendo dont spend much to develope their games ms does it hurts ms more just look at graphics and time money they put to make a game compared to wii

This article is garbage.

"Everyone assumed this to be an anti-piracy measure brewed to stop the moungrels in their tracks."

No, only a few uneducated people assumed this and the assumption is incorrect. It was actually a side-effect of the LATEST 360 modified firmwares that prevented the disk from booting, they seen the new data and assumed that the disk was corrupt, so didn't boot to prevent the filthy pirate from getting banned. If you installed an older firmware that didn't have this SAFETY CHECK, the game would boot just fine.

If you ever put a 360 disk inside a regular DVD player, it actually plays a small video that tells you the disk isn't a DVD and must be used in a 360. This video is on a special "partition" of the disk. Due to how 360 disks are made up (remember that 2Gb of "security" everyone bangs on about?), Microsoft simply did not have room to put the NXE update on the disk in the usual place. Before the NXE, updates were all relatively small, somewhere around 8Mb, the NXE, with all it's Avatars and such is more like 80Mb (compressed). So to cut a long story short, MS had to put this update data on the "video partition" of the disks. That's all that's changed and all the 360 modders had to do was disable ONE simple check that THEY wrote in the first place.

If piracy is so rampant on the 360,then software sales would suffer greatly.

Well of course its easy to pirate a 360 because it is essentially the same as any old PC unit.

must suck for microsoft then

Piracy affects both the 360 and the ps3. It is possible to play burned copies of ps3 games on the ps3 without being modded and still able to play online with them. All you need is a special usb. And of course the ps3 is the best player to play burned copies of blurays.

MS is getting grief b/c they chose a last gen media that's easy to hack while being financially feasible to duplicate on DVD-RW's for dirt cheap. People talking about 360 sales have to realize two things, it sells more b/c the 360 has more consoles out, it's the fact that fanboys like to crow about. Secondly, sales of Wii games are higher than 360 games. If your going to go by sales for best game, than we'd all be stuck with Wii play and Wii Fit (-_-);;.

Untill the customer themselves do so.