Had me worried there for a moment, MS. I just got my copy of Borderlands early (cool game and lucky me) from Zavvi, but I don't want to be punished, because they shipped it out to me early.

If MS can tell a legit copy, from a pirate one, then this can only help even the playing field.

So how is this magical detection system going to work? I am always getting games early threw importing aswell as freinds in certain stores. As i am aware a Copy is a 1:1 Just how Dvds can be ripped. So how are they going to magicly know?
I sense alot of finger wiggling going to happen with alot of firey pitchforks being raised.

The article said if you have a reciept!, so i assume, if you can prrove your game is legit then your ban will be undone.

What get sme though is why they are banning live accounts and not banning consoles???

@haritori

From what i gather a console can be replaced where sadly Account has all your MS points and such. But receipts is BS. What if its a gift? I get parents to import from overseas and it doesnt have a receipt as its classed as gift which it is to also not get import charged. So its now either i wait and pay overpriced games. Or still buy them and get them sold earlier but potential ban. They need a seriously better system otherwise people will think screwit and stay offine saving a nice £5 a month and still pirating wheras those who import/get legit copys early suffer.

looking back at the PS1 days the console could tell it wasn't a "real" copy which is why you needed to chip it so I'm guessing something isn't copied that tells the console it's legit I would hazard a guess that it's this that MS are looking for.