Xbox 360 development kits stolen in Germany

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Xbox 360 development kits stolen in Germany
Posted by Enan Hawk on 10 Oct 2005 - 23:16

Microsoft has shown reports that ten Xbox 360 development kits have been stolen from a warehouse in Duren Germany. There is speculation that the hardware has fallen into the hands of hackers. These 10 development kits were unmarked packages. A few days after the shipment went 'missing', photographs of the kits appeared on the Internet, with the serial numbers edited out. Police raids in Austria and Germany recovered three of the units, but seven kits remain untraced at present as the investigation continues.

Microsoft's original Xbox console was plagued by piracy and modification, including the installation of mod chips which bypassed DVD region encoding and copyright protection measures. Pirated software and modified games which gave players an unfair advantage in Xbox Live matches have also been prolific on the Xbox.
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[Mephistopheles]

The development kits are pretty much the information of Microsoft about the X-Box 360 right?

A lot can be made with that, the whole thing could go into the black market in a flash, and every single thing that could be tried to keep in secret has aready been seen. They might even be ale to produce X-Box 360's although some machinery needs to be involved, however, other companies could pay a lot for that information, it's a potential gold mine, but not for Microsoft.

[Gamemaniac]

I don't think that this could go to such extend...
If someone tries to produce XBOX 360 they are going to be caught ... so I think that what they will try is to make security bypasses as they did to the original Xbox.

[Mephistopheles]

TRY?!

Man, they DO it, not TRY it, it's sure they will make it, and even more now.

Hey, a mine gold is a mine gold, you just need to find the correct buyer........ or just bid it.