The anti-owner technology in Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has been compromised. The Xbox 360 contains a number of technologies aimed at preventing the devices’ owners from installing their own software/operating systems, backing up their games, etc. One of these measures is the filesystem, which is encrypted. Now a technology group called Pi has decoded the filesystem, which is an important step towards stripping out all of Microsoft’s anti-customer technologies and turning the Xbox 360 into a general computing platform.
Once you get past the protections and down to the raw bits on the disc, its just the standard xboxdvdfs, however the offset and layer breakpoint are different.
The 360’s predecessor, the Xbox, was cracked by Andrew “Bunnie” Huang, whose hacks were used to build a flavor of the GNU/Linux operating system that could run on the Xbox, transforming it from a mere toy to a full-fledged general-purpose PC. Xbox owners who availed themselves of the Xbox cracks got to protect and increase their investments in Xbox technology by adding new features to it.
Bunnie published a fantastic account of his Xbox cracking adventure, called Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering, which is part manifesto, part HOWTO, and required reading for anyone who wants to start down the road of improving the technology all around us.