Fall Update Lawsuit

12/12/06 5:47 pm | #1

Well since everyone is posting about this everywhere I thought I would paste the link in case you guys haven't heard about it. Since the Fall update, there has been more and more bricked 360s and now a lawsuit has developed claiming the update caused it. Here is the link:

http://xbox360.qj.net/The-fall-update-class-action-lawsuit-continues/pg/49/aid/76006

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Re: Fall Update Lawsuit

12/12/06 6:00 pm | #2

I don't really understand what the fall update has to do with it?

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Re: Fall Update Lawsuit

12/12/06 6:17 pm | #3

It's complicated but it is possible that the update is doing this to certain 360s. You know how MS likes to release things without FULLY removing bugs and whatnot...

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Re: Fall Update Lawsuit

12/12/06 6:34 pm | #4

I do believe that they are guilty, but I believe that, instead, they should refund the money of everyone that had to pay when they shouldn't have had to, and drop all further charges. Grillstation 3 fanboys will jump ALL OVER this if it falls through. I would rather that didn't happen.

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Re: Fall Update Lawsuit

12/12/06 10:14 pm | #5

Quote by Pastafarianism:

I don't really understand what the fall update has to do with it?

From what I heard, and I can't attest to the trueness of this, but it does seem to be a feasible explanation: Microsoft, as they like to do, included within the fall update not only all of the upgrades and fixes they described, but also a tiny piece of anti-piracy software. This software was meant to find 360's with Samsung drives that had the hacked firmware to allow people to play burned games, and brick said consoles. When they called MS to complain, then MS would charge them to ship them the console to fix, and either keep it and not return it on the case of the hacked firmware or, more likely, send the party a 360 with a different DVD drive. Supposedly, the anti-piracy piece of the update back-fired and bricked not only consoles that had hacked firmware, but also drives that did not have hacked firmware. Now, my 360 is a launch system, meaning that it does have the hackable Samsung drive. I haven't hacked my drive or even opened my 360, and I have downloaded every update, including the fall update, without a problem. That doesn't mean that this story isn't true, however. Knowing the history of Microsoft and my work as a computer technician, this sounds like something MS would not think twice about doing, not even thinking that it could possibly backfire on them. If this is true and it becomes proven, I'd like to see them weasel their way out of the consequences, which I'm sure they will.

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Re: Fall Update Lawsuit

12/12/06 10:33 pm | #6

Quote by Hektic Juggalo:

From what I heard, and I can't attest to the trueness of this, but it does seem to be a feasible explanation: Microsoft, as they like to do, included within the fall update not only all of the upgrades and fixes they described, but also a tiny piece of anti-piracy software. This software was meant to find 360's with Samsung drives that had the hacked firmware to allow people to play burned games, and brick said consoles. When they called MS to complain, then MS would charge them to ship them the console to fix, and either keep it and not return it on the case of the hacked firmware or, more likely, send the party a 360 with a different DVD drive. Supposedly, the anti-piracy piece of the update back-fired and bricked not only consoles that had hacked firmware, but also drives that did not have hacked firmware. Now, my 360 is a launch system, meaning that it does have the hackable Samsung drive. I haven't hacked my drive or even opened my 360, and I have downloaded every update, including the fall update, without a problem. That doesn't mean that this story isn't true, however. Knowing the history of Microsoft and my work as a computer technician, this sounds like something MS would not think twice about doing, not even thinking that it could possibly backfire on them. If this is true and it becomes proven, I'd like to see them weasel their way out of the consequences, which I'm sure they will.

Okay, thanks for that. That makes sense. The article had me confused.

I bet this won't go anywhere though.

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