I have 2 Xbox's. I bought 1 when I thought the other would get banned if I modded it. It still to this day has Xbox Live and has never been banned. Just don't use non-stealth games, and only play games that have been released and you'll be fine. Also wouldn't recommend using your real gamertag with copies so.... just assume alot of the people who got banned (not all of them of course) probably didn't know what they were doing. Always use iXtreme firmware too, standard Xtreme is just asking to get you banned.