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pcernie
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_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/
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paulzolo
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm
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 That’s a spot draconian. What IS the problem with backing up your data elsewhere? Are Microsoft nuts? At the moment, I’m happy to say that the PS3 is pretty liberated in this respect. I can, for example, slap in a new HD, and the PS3 even comes with utilities so I can take backups over a USB connection and restore later if needed.
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saspro
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Location: location, location
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It's becoming the only way to stop counterfeit memory cards flooding the market
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jonbwfc
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By kicking the users rather than counterfeiters? Charming. Alternatively, how about charging less for the official ones? Jon
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Location: Scotland
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microsoft suck  _________________
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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curiousclive
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One solution is not to upgrade your Xbox.
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Angelic
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Location: Leeds, UK
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Microsoft are taking a leaf out of Apple's book.
I like it =)
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Amnesia10
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One reason why I switched to macs. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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big_D
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I thought the 360 had a hard drive? Why does it need a memory card as well? 
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gavomatic57
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The hard drive was an extra expense if you bought the Core version, so many opted for the memory unit. Plus in the event of an inevitable failure, it was useful to have an additional backup.
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finlay666
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Well kicking the counterfeiters hardly worked for the R4, even then Nintendo have to target the shops selling it and not the manufacturers as under the R4 guise many release the cards (R4 no longer exists and hasn't for some time now).... And it's needed as 360 piracy is much more common than PS3 due to the software not being extremely expensive to purchase media/burners for Just look at the Wii piracy, it's possible by connecting an external hard drive or even SD card to play downloaded games and is so easy it's incredible and yawn at the typical MS suck posts, Apple have been doing this for some time, if the PS3 wasn't using Blu Ray it would likely have the same problem, the equivalent issue is in the PSP currently and piracy on that is stupidly high also. You can't blame a company for wanting to protect it's products _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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Amnesia10
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I would have thought that games piracy was more of a concern to them than the counterfeit chips. If games can be pirated much more easily then Microsoft are losing out on their stream of royalties. That might be the real reason for the clampdown. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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finlay666
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I can only assume that the hardware is in some way involved in the playing of the hardware. The games wouldn't be easily pirated if the dvd drives couldn't be flashed (like Brad was trying to obviously do) but I have to assume the HDD and memory units could be used also _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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l3v1ck
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Typical MS, they can't get the console tax on the memory devices, so they disable them instead.
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