lol not to worry there working on a totaly new firmware for teh xbox drives so if your running a flashed drive and arnt yet banned keep off live until its released and get it reflashed, testing has been in progress and so far none of teh units tested have been banned so its looking good so far
what made me laugh was bbc radio 1's so called expert saying its effecting 360 consoles that are modchipped, no xbox 360 consoles are modchipped the dvd drives are re programed to accept pirate games which is a totaly different thing
if there is anyone banned there are alternatives to xbox live if you want to play online but they arnt as good obviously but better than nothing
XBConnect
Leaf Networks - Connecting people with devices
only downfall is that most if not all games are ping limited to lower than 30ms or no connection can be made
The ping deal is that if your playing your buddies over a short distance, like same city or close by city it works, you just won't play many games across the whole country.
havnt tested these myself yet as i am not banned but i used to use xboxconnect on my xbox 1 and had no problems playing online for FREE
