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Microsoft's new anti-piracy tool for 360 cracked

It didn't take long for the new 360 game protection software to be hacked

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Last Friday Disney Pixar released a new game, Car O Rama, which boasted a new Wave 4 protection. Microsoft’s earlier attempts at protecting the Xbox 360 against piracy have all failed miserably, and it seems this one is no exception. Pirates have already created a temporary fix for the iXtreme 1.6 hack firmware, which involves you downloading a 3MB “activate.iso” file and burning it to a DVD9 disc.
 
This disc can then be used to load games with Wave 4 protection, which currently only include Car O Rama, but will most likely include other games in the future. The official NFO file for the loader states: 
One shot boot mode allows you to boot a Wave X or non stealth game by using the activate.iso disc as a flag. Just insert the activate disc and the next disc inserted will boot without any strict checks. This will still utilise full stealth if available. As soon as that disc is booted the flag is cleared, and you will have to re-insert the activate disk again to enable one shot boot. As always, use with caution. 
So it is very possibly that you could be banned if you are using this whilst on Xbox Live.
 
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#1 Oct 16, 2009 13:12:58 (Oct 16, 2009 13:12)

kamikaziechameleon
i know two people with cracked/fixed xboxes and they do not use live, they don't want to pay for its functions.  I would like to point out that pirates aren't lost sales.  And I would urge devs and publishers to follow the steam model of value added software/DRM where  their is no draw back for the consumer but rather added value.  perhaps building DRM into live Gold and making it free like steam would be a great resolution.
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