Were you a naughty little boy who stoleHalo: ReachorCall of Duty? Microsoft knows, and it’s very disappointed in you.

A new update has hit the Xbox 360 to bolster its piracy protection, and it’s mostly geared towards dirty copies ofModern Warfare 2,Black OpsandHalo: Reach. Players will no longer be able to run these copies, and their accounts will more than likely be flagged for a ban.

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Make one wonder why people persist with “back up” versions of Xbox 360 games. Microsoft seems able to kill them at will, like a terrorist who’s put a remote-control bomb in your heart.

Still, we live in a world where peoplebrick their PS3sin a desperate effort to thieve games, so I shouldn’t be surprised.

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