I agree with you all this was to weak. One week sounded perfect. Although ive done these exploits with the WoW game (downloading full versions) from their own Homepage. without paying for it
The One Day ban will be enough to let people realize that Microsoft is serious. I think it's fine for a first offense. Second offense should a week or month and so on. It's likely that some didn't even realize that it wasn't OK.
We did NOT ban tens of thousands of folks yesterday as some are reporting
But he goes on to say:
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As many of you know we do sometimes have to take action against accounts and consoles that violate the Xbox LIVE Terms of Use. Although we’re really impressed with the excitement around the Call of Duty 4 multiplayer beta, I do want to take this moment to point out that that the steps I’ve been reading about that some people have been trying to take to get in on the beta without their own token could very well violate our Terms of Use.
So the problem wasn't that they got the Beta so much as that sharing your account is a violation of the Xbox LIVE Terms of Use
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From Major Nelson:But he goes on to say: So the problem wasn't that they got the Beta so much as that sharing your account is a violation of the Xbox LIVE Terms of Use