The videos were leaked by contracted testers, and those users who leaked the footage have now had their Xbox
Live accounts banned.
As a result they subsequently had
their Live accounts banned to the year 9999 (which, I'm guessing, is as high as the 360 could count as far as years go).
Not exact matches
Shortly afterwards, Milo Yiannopolous, the technology editor of right - wing site Breitbart News and a proponent of various «alt - right» views — including the need for races to
live separately — had his
account permanently
banned.
It did have a short -
lived benefit in January when more than 200,000 people deleted their Uber
accounts, because many unfairly accused the company of attempting to profit off the backs of taxi drivers protesting President Donald Trump's travel
ban.
Other news: Jailbreaking your PS3 means no PSN, Duke Nukem Forever, Kojima's Twitter
account outrage, the cost of
living in a town that will get you
banned from Xbox
Live, and much more.
(Further explanation alert: People on the Internet take a memorably dramatic scene from the film Der Untergang where Hitler finds out that he is losing the war, but add ridiculous subtitles that make the dictator look like he is ranting about iPhones or getting
banned from his Xbox
Live account).
But Sony
banned my
account for
life just for those 2 minutes I was online.
As of now, they are trying to persuade people from downloading the title, by threatening to
ban their Xbox
Live accounts for good.
Abuse of the messaging endpoint of the API will result in a perminant
ban of your
account, and xbox
live email address on this system.
Initially, the testers whose
accounts were
banned claimed that their Xbox Ones were completely bricked by Microsoft, but Microsoft has since clarified that even thought the Xbox
Live accounts are suspended, the consoles are still usable.
Daniel Radcliffe is in negotiations to star in Game Changer, a true -
life account of a fight between the creator of Grand Theft Auto and a Miami lawyer who wanted to
ban video game violence.