Date: Saturday, July 24 @ 04:43:36 UTC Topic: Xbox 360
News from French Xbox website logic-sunrise.com says the French retailer Micromania checking each Xbox 360 with a Halo 3 DVD+R DL RW disc before buying it back from customers and putting it on the 2nd-hand market.
According to their source at Micromania this discs is coming from Microsoft itself! This is a quick test to see if the DVD FW has been flashed with a custom modified firmware and would avoid the 2nd-hand buyer to be banned at a later time not knowing his firmware was flashed. Of course you can still flash your DVD drive firmware back to stock before selling it though.
If you hear about other stores or shops doing this, feel free to post and let notice on the forums.