Microsoft has said that it doesnt brick consoles as some form of retributive punishment. It had to clarify this with a statement to Kotaku when the video game news and blog website published an article in 2015 originally titled Microsoft Punishes Gears Leakers By Temporarily Bricking Xbox Ones. Kotaku changed it to Microsoft Punishes Gears of War Leakers, when Microsoft said its enforcement action does not result in a console becoming unusable. What Microsoft can and does do, though, is suspend...
