Actually. No one knows for fact. It's all speculation. The post above me is especially incorrect. Thousands get banned for "proper" stealthed games played far beyond the release date.
Every year people get banned on ANY firmware.
I still find it funny how people flash their Xboxes then are afraid to go online (You might as well be banned, since you are afraid to go online). You should accept a ban before you start flashing your box.
I did a firmware mod to my last Xbox 360 drive[Falcon] and it was the biggest mistake ever!
I still had the warranty until i modified it.
I could play copies but never did because inferior discs would hurt the lifespan of the drive and original games second hand are cheaper[ if you trade for cruddy old titles at a game exchange shop anyways.].
My firmware hack was guaranteed to bypass any on-line check from Microsoft on live.
This was before NXE though and after rechecking these forums after a month or two people with the stealth drives got banned from live, not to mention the few unlucky sods who actually bricked their drives using the wrong firmware for their drive.
Herzeleid is right about not knowing for a fact about the correlation between getting banned from live with a firmware hack, but it still totally is not worth it!
I sold that Xbox before the RROD got me, and consider myself lucky as i didn't have proper Internet at that time.
Im gonna get me a Jasper XBox soon due to finally having ASDL and will never ever attempt a stupid thing like that again!
BTW GTA4 going for R199 new!
A classic and its original for the love of @#$ why ruin games for yourself by playing a copied Xbox game?
It taints your gaming spirit[on xbox360 anyways as those achievements you unlock are otherwise useless with copies].
