Microsoft Defeats Pirates With New Xbox 360 Security Measures

Microsoft has been fighting a constant battle with piracy on the Xbox 360. The company which has seen numerous methods fail to impede piracy on the console, may have hit the mark with a recent security update that stop users from playing pirated software on the Xbox 360.

Microsoft Defeats Pirates With New Xbox 360 Protection

Microsoft has been fighting a constant battle with piracy on the Xbox 360. The company which has seen numerous methods fail to impede piracy on the console, may have hit the mark with a recent security update that stop users from playing pirated software on the Xbox 360.

Said to have updated Xbox 360 consoles without user consent. The latest silent update changed what is known as the DAE.bin on the consoles, and works in conjunction with the AP 2.5 disc protection to stop users from playing any games with the protection on them.

If users attempt to play games with the AP 2.5 disc protection after the silent update, those users are said to receive a flag on their system which could be used to ban a specific console. In 2009, Microsoft banned thousands of Xbox 360's for playing pirated software, as well as any system modifications that aren't allowable under the Xbox Live Terms of Use.

Is another ban wave headed for Xbox 360 owners later this year?

By Al McCarthy on November 20, 2011

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hello
ouch…this will affect all my friends that have an xbox…ALL of them play non legal games
That Guy
good thing i have pc :D. until microsoft smartens up and tries to prevent piracy on windows :(
- Cool dude (My birthday)
  Ever heard of Duqu virus?? Yeah, its in PC.
- That Guy
  what does that have to do with piracy?
- Cool dude
  nothing -_-
X
Stupid microsoft, greedy b@stards. Guess millions off Banbox Live ain’t enough.
- That Guy
  well they do it for the same reason the entertainment industry tried to get the SOPA bill passed. they and many game developers lose money from people stealing games.
- Cool dude (My birthday)
  Einstein’s Theory of Relativity:
  e = m c2
  Cool Dude’s theory:
  X = The perfect Troll
njb
Ppl r always going to get stuff for free or get stuff ilegally. Their always away around.security. MS should have implemented better security software, features and piracy prevention. The DVD doesnt help the problem.
- Cool dude
  Well, what do you think theyre doing now?
Gary
This has been beat already
the lost pirate
fuck m$ and their overpriced games, i belive we shouldnt have to pay so god damn much for somthing that cost them less than 2 bucks! i mean yea make profit nd all but thats just called raping ur customers!!! microsoft will never be able to stop us from getting our games for free, they might try and succed for a a day or so, but its like i say, if man can make it, man ca n defeat IT! so fuck paying my hard earned cash on games! long live the pirates!!!!!!
- travisb
  Games don’t cost $2 to make. They cost millions.
- bozmanbeyond
  You sir are a moron! M$ doesn’t make all the games you play. The price point is set by the industry. They are protecting the companies that produce these games not them selves. Same in point with FONY. You think a game cost is only $2 your way off your rocker. For instance Epic has 120 employees and it generally takes 2 years to develop a game that is 499,200 hours of labor provided they all work 40 hours a week. Now just for kicks lets say they all make $10 per hour that comes out to $4,992,000.Now if you put in shipping, Raw materials, Utility bills to run the Studio, Advertisement your looking at almost $10-15 million. So far they have sold 4.37 million copies of GOW3 if they sold them at $2 each that would be $8,740,000 for a loss.Oh, and don’t forget they pay taxes too. So the studio may walk away with about $16 profit per game at $60 a pop.
- Ray
  So your money is hard earned, and the guys doing the programing is easy?
  Think again. Programing is just one step. What about the animaters, graphic artists, voice talent, sorty line authors and editors?
  I am webmaster for a world renouned rock guitarist. Just the production of the disk, forget the cost of paying his band, the studio time and some case for himself, and he has to sell THOUSANDS of CDs just to break even.
T23
Lol, why don’t you add that many legit owners of the game, specifically MW3, are receiving error’s of dirty disk and more. So get ready for legit owners to be banned because of the error in DAE.bin.
outlaw
Well it seem that there’s a solution coming for this silent update..LT 3.0 will solve this problem. Microsoft should just give up. There’s not no way to stop pirates. I hope they do a better job on the next console they make
- Ray
  There are many ways to stop pirates, MS just found a new one. It is hard to stop drunk drivers. Should we stop trying that too?
JON MAY
Ya it will not last long
JON MAY
Get your AP2.5/XGD3 backups working again after the silent DAE update.
http://www.ixtreme.net/open-forum/18974-get-your-ap2-5-xgd3-backups-working-again-after-silent-dae-update.html
JON MAY
WOW that lasted long. LOL
Rizwan
IMO stopping piracy is pointless, many people who pirate games still won’t buy games if they can’t download them. They pirate because they can’t afford £45/$60 for a game. The only way in which everyone wins is that the cost of games has to come down. If games cost less people will be less likely to pirate. No one wants to steal but everyone wants to be seen playing the latest games.
- S
  dude, it’s not so high price, where i live i have to pay something like $100-150$ if i buy it from internet, this fucking small city sell’s PIRATE xbox games at 40 bucks.
  yeah i hate brasil .-.
reality
All this will do is create new pirate firmware. Don’t play online and you won’t get banned. Sorry but pirates are smarter, they’ve cracked every console and enabled backup playability as well as the ability to play games off a hdd. Pirates win.
- Cool dude (My birthday)
  Yeah, Pirates always win… but dont you think its reasonable to at least try to fight back??What will happen to the industry without fighting the pirates???
  Total Collapse of the Video Game indusry!!
Heard it here first
I buy all my games, so I’m not effected. Its not worth doing all you have to do to pirate it.
PS3XBOX360
Poor pirates the only reason that the new hacked firmware still works is because you’ve only been flagged so far the ban wave is yet to come ;) you have no idea how complex the new security patch is as after MS investigated the new firmware hack it seems to be apparent that the group that released the hack hasn’t even detected the full impact it has.
- Alex
  @PS3XBOX360
  Complex? Take a look at what took just a couple of days for commodore to defeat;
  http://c4evaspeaks.com/ixtreme-lt-v3-0-on-the-way-ap2-5-defeated/
  Game over for now m$
  It looks like microsoft inadvertently gave commodore and his team what they needed to defeat the ap 2.5 and dae.bin protections.
reality
Simple solution to the updates that arrive through Xbox Live, don’t go online and the update Wong be applied, when the Xbox dashboard updates wait for the next firmware. Easy, you know I’d you’re going to talk like you know what’s going on, the least you could do us a little research about pirating, it’s not hard, and is a Google search away.
reality
won’t, damn auto correct!
CP3
DAE/AP25 Gets the “silver bullet”. LT+ 3.0 on the way.
Its been reported that many legit owners with retail copies of MW3 are being affected as well. M$ should think twice about this ban wave because alot of legit users will banned.
damian
This comes as a huge shock.
Microsoft banning consoles just before christmas to get extra sales who would of guessed.
- Cool dude
  A dumb person would say that only one company banns piracy.
  If it werent for the Banning, piracy would be on every single console…
  Pathetic statement damain.
Truth
^True. Typical microsoft but their slaves don’t care, they’ll throw their $ at them and suck them off!!!
- Cool dude
  No fanboy, just… NO.
Alex
This is all moot as commodore 4 eva has defeated all ap 2.5 and dae.bin reliance due to microsoft’s release of the silent update. When c4e releases lt 3.0 there will be no more worry about ap 2.5/6 or dae.bin changes for modded users unless m$ releases another protection scheme like xgd3, which isn’t likely for a while.
reality
The headline should be, Microsoft makes pirates update their firmware, again. Damn S, for $40 a game you should probably just burn your own. It’s around $5-10 a game in the states.
Got it All $$$
http://m.ign.com/articles/1213055