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Xbox 360 update bans Call of Duty dupes

Microsoft stuffs cracked copies

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Microsoft's mandatory Xbox 360 update, issued yesterday, was described by the company as a fix for a known bug. It turns out that it also combats gamers who own illicit copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops and other games.

Posters on the Xbox-Scene forums discovered their "back-up" copies of CoD and Modern Warfare 2 no longer run. They say the enforced download was somewhat larger than what you might expect for a simple bug-fix patch.

The update claimed to give users the ability to boot a pre-inserted game when you power on, a feature that was apparently disabled by accident in November. ®

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meh

Just patch the iso with SSv3 and burn again oh and as long as your drives on the latest firmware your back on again. People are cheating on cod without backups.

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Good.

Console modifications usually mean people cheating, and the fewer of them the better.

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