What harm could a simple update be right?
That’s what Xbox360 users thought of when they decided to get the mandatory Xbox update that they issued recently. Its goal is to just update a single bugfix but users, especially those who have pirated or burned copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Black Ops, got more that what they bargained for.
It turned out that there was something else in that update. Xbox users said in the forums that aside from the download of the update taking too long, it was discovered that users who had the pirated and burned copies of Call of Duty has stopped working. The players were blocked out from both the COD games and can’t play it now.
It is suspected that Microsoft had included a patch in the update a patch for these two games to enable an anti-piracy feature that specifically targets burned copies. There was something more in the update than what Microsoft advertised. For those who have the legal copies of COD, the update enabled the console to automatically boot a pre-inserted game when you power it on, a feature that was disabled last November.
Sneaky Microsoft! That was one sneaky move for disabling illegal copies of COD. Well, this is a lesson learned for pirates and hackers. Now you really have to buy the real thing.
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