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Essentially, moderators at Xbox Live can permanently label someone a cheater if they believe the person has used some kid of shady means to boost their score. The label shows up on the person's profile tag like a Scarlet Letter for all to see.

They also can no longer earn back achievements.

Julius, an 11-year-old from Edgewood, and his mom Jennifer claim the boy can't even comprehend the concept of cheating, much less use a program that could hack the system and manipulate his score.

Jennifer has been trying to get answers from Microsoft, and after getting the run-around for a while, she finally got some e-mails from a lawyer explaining Xbox Live's strip-and-shame policy for people they think are cheaters.

It's a policy first rolled out in 2008. More on that here and here.

Whether little Julius is actually a cheater or not, we may never know. But somehow he seems a bit too adorable to sink to that level.

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Why is the news on this site so slow and reposted multiple times? It was confirmed he used programs like lefluffie to mod his gamerscore, and he CAN re-earn them.

thats soooo true :y:
they go round banning me for no reason
when i havent even been on the xbox for a month :carling:

This is unacceptable on Microsoft's half.