Where I see that these banned XBox360 users might have a court case, is the fact that XBox360’s have a well documented failure rate as far as the RROD, E74, and scratching disks. M$ cut corners on the DVD drives, and did not put in the cheap rubber stopper bumpers to prevent the ringing (scratching) of disks. A serious design error, or rather in this case, just plain being cheap and not caring for the customers. This disk scratching problem was well documented, in fact, MS was for some time replacing scratched disks that were they label, but not others. I do not know if the current XBox360’s have this same problem, but there still has to be a few of the older ones old there.

I doubt that all these people are pirates who back up their disks, many are most likely just trying to save themselves from putting an expensive disk in a drive that is basically defective. MS should be sued for the defective drives. Its the defective drives that have caused some (not all) to do this, and having to put a disk in to check the backup, well, that is still putting the disk in and taking your chances on getting it scratched while it checks.

As MS continues down the path to more control of its customers, how far off can the day be when revenue continues to decline, that MS like the RIAA, likes its front (BSA) for suing business customers, starts suing regular users of XBox360 and Windows/Office, the ones who are not paying for all the software?

Disclaimer: I do not or have every owned a MS console, and never ever will.