Microsoft Hits Back At Piracy, Pirates Break Security Already

Last Friday Disney Pixar released a new game, Car O Rama, which boasted a new Wave 4 protection. Microsoft’s earlier attempts at protecting the Xbox 360 against piracy have all failed miserably, and it seems this one is no exception. Pirates have already created a temporary fix for the iXtreme 1.6 hack firmware, which involves you downloading a 3MB “activate.iso” file and burning it to a DVD9 disc.

This disc can then be used to load games with Wave 4 protection, which currently only include Car O Rama, but will most likely include other games in the future. The official NFO file for the loader states:

One shot boot mode allows you to boot a Wave X or non stealth game by using the activate.iso disc as a flag. Just insert the activate disc and the next disc inserted will boot without any strict checks. This will still utilise full stealth if available. As soon as that disc is booted the flag is cleared, and you will have to re-insert the activate disk again to enable one shot boot. As always use with caution

So it is very possibly that you could be banned if you are using this whilst on Xbox Live.

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