Silent Xbox Live anti-piracy update affecting legit gamers
DCxKILLINSPREEx: Xbox had a hidden update on Wednesday to help combat pirates or something. This is affecting my legitimate Modern Warfare 3 though because it can't read it. Something needs to be done.
EBomb360: Just picked up my 4th copy, and this time, my Machine won't even recognize the disc. Meanwhile, I slide Gears of War 3 in and it works just fine. Somebody screwed up here, fix it.
Digitaljim: My Xbox DO NOT RUN ONLY MW3, my other games run with no problem (tested 20 until today), when try to read the disc some times says Error Reading Disc Code: 03-80-00 or Disc Not Recoignized. My copy of MW3 was exchanged on the store and again my Xbox can´t read the game, tested the disc on a friend Xbox and it run with no problems, tried the copy of my friend on my Xbox and the same errors again. Tried 3 discs and my Xbox can´t read them. What's going on Microsoft????!!!!!!
According to Xbox hacker C4eva, this is due to a file called “dae.bin” being silently updated across all Xbox LIVE connected consoles. The file, which is stored in the NAND and inaccessible to end-users, contains a set of anti-piracy verification challenges that check a certain security sector on the Xbox game disc.
Burned discs cannot properly replicate the security sector of an original disc, which contains all the correct responses to these challenges. As such they only contain one or two challenges that match the current dae.bin in the firmware. When Microsoft updates the dae.bin silently, all pirated discs return a dirty/unsupported disc error as the responses on the disc do not match the challenges sent; whereas all legitimate official discs are supposed to contain all the responses and thus still work.
The updated dae.bin only affects newer games with the newer anti-piracy measures encoded into the game disc. These newer measures are included with the new XGD3 game type that recently allowed an extra gigabyte of storage on normal Xbox 360 discs (for developers to fill, of course). Modern Warfare 3 is one of these new games that use the updated dae.bin, and it appears that Microsoft in their efforts to combat piracy have not fully ensured that the challenges work on all legitimate game discs.
Despite the stuff-ups from Microsoft that inconvenience legitimate buying gamers, the new measures seem to have successfully prevented pirates from playing their burned copies of popular new titles like MW3. Furthermore, it appears as though the new dae.bin is unique to each console and could potentially be difficult to circumvent in the quest to play pirated games on the Xbox 360 again.
In the thread on the Xbox forums, Microsoft representative Mister Fitzer said that “we are currently investigating and working closely with Activision to resolve this issue.” We sure hope that Microsoft can sort this out so that paying customers can return to gaming without unwanted errors.
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Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/silent-xbox-live-anti-piracy-update-is-affecting-legit-gamers
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ToleratedPosted:
If this happens to you all you need to do is download an update put it on a usb transfer it to the hdd and play the game simple
PJOLLISPosted:
thanx for telling me this =) I was about to throw my xbox through the window when the screen said "the disc is not readable" when i put MW 3 in for the first time
xProGamerzPosted:
***EASY FIX FOR THIS***
This happened to me and my disc wouldn't work etc I borrowed my brothers disc, installed it, put my game back in and it worked perfectly! :)
Only problem is that you would need two discs....
This happened to me and my disc wouldn't work etc I borrowed my brothers disc, installed it, put my game back in and it worked perfectly! :)
Only problem is that you would need two discs....
MyblindfatePosted:
TTG-Adrian And now I know why I got "Disc Is Unreadable" the night I got MW3 after about 15mins of playing it! :D That explains it all! :D
It would have never even started the game if you has this problem you probably laser burnt it or burnt it out
Third_EyePosted:
TTG_BaNHaMM3R I posted a topic on this. :/
I saw that! Everyone's like YOU NEED TO UPDATE IT CAN'T BE SILENT blah blah blah...
They can do silent updates.
SyrPosted:
TTG-Adrian And now I know why I got "Disc Is Unreadable" the night I got MW3 after about 15mins of playing it! :D That explains it all! :D
If it was while you were playing it you probbaly laser burned it. :O
TTG-AdrianPosted:
And now I know why I got "Disc Is Unreadable" the night I got MW3 after about 15mins of playing it! :D That explains it all! :D
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