Mandatory Xbox 360 update sneakily halts Call of Duty pirates

Apparently, Microsoft sneaked a super secret feature into its recent, Boot-to-Disc-restoring mandatory Xbox 360 firmware update: the ability to stop Call of Duty: Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2 pirates and hackers dead in their tracks. Posters on the Xbox-Scene forums are claiming that consoles with backed-up versions of the two games took an awfully long time to download the relatively small update -- and once it arrived, it stopped backup versions of the two games from working altogether.

Was this a coincidence, or was Microsoft targeting illicit players of two of Xbox Live's most active multiplayer titles? We've contacted Microsoft to try and find out.

Mandatory Xbox 360 update sneakily halts Call of Duty pirates originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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