Microsoft to block xboxlive downloads

**anto1208** · 04/05/2007, 9:36 AM

With the xbox 360 you set up a irish account and got access to legal downloadable content , Each region offers different content while we here get great things like movie trailers and microsoft ads ,the US market place got 10 seasons of south park , full HD movies and other TV shows . In japan they got full games etc .

So setting up an account and claiming your region was the US gave you access to the US market place , But from next week microsoft will be blocking acces from other regions .

Great way to stop illegal downloads , block the legal ones !!! FFS

**GavinZac** · 04/05/2007, 9:52 AM

I don't get it, do you mean you (in ireland) register as a US based player? and they've copped to that? Or that they're removing downloadable content everywhere but USA?

**anto1208** · 04/05/2007, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by GavinZac

I don't get it, do you mean you (in ireland) register as a US based player? and they've copped to that? Or that they're removing downloadable content everywhere but USA?

They have copped on to it most people had 3 accounts a irish one a US one and a japan one to get all the downloadable stuff . but from next week they are blocking access from different regions . So irish accounts will only get irish ( europeen ) content . Which is really really poor

**GavinZac** · 04/05/2007, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by anto1208

They have copped on to it most people had 3 accounts a irish one a US one and a japan one to get all the downloadable stuff . but from next week they are blocking access from different regions . So irish accounts will only get irish ( europeen ) content . Which is really really poor

No its not, they're under contractual obligation to protect the copyrighted material they licensed from the owners. What you did wasnt legal, it was a failing of microsoft's, which they've since fixed.