You all are the same people that jump on posters in other threads who say "Be careful... Amazon bans accounts with excessive returns" or "Best Buy bans for excessive trade-ins" as being paranoid and trying to create fear (as I'm sure there were posters in the Xbox 360 free games threads saying the same thing) and then when you actually get banned you cry whine bitch and moan and blame everyone but yourselves.
I won't debate the morality of downloading the games much. Let's just be clear here, Microsoft has said things in the past to indicate it was in the least not a bannable offense. They also have condoned region switching. Finally, fraud was not required to download the games. I'm not calling it moral, but there's no need to be obtuse about this.
Secondly, did Amazon screw with people's computers? Did Best Buy screw with your car? Let's not be confused here, Microsoft is impairing the function of Xbox 360s. May be not corrupting them like in the past, which was nearly criminal, but this is a key sticking point. This means, there are people with
paid services they can no longer access. No refunds on paid services either.
Third, did Amazon also cut off access to credit from gift cards when they banned an account? This is a key sticking point as well, because Microsoft has certainly done that. There are people with hundreds, if not more in their account that they lost access to. Same with Best Buy, did you lose your gift card to? If there was no refund, there's no defending that on the part of any of those, but I suspect only Micrsoft did this.
Fourth, did anyone banned from Amazon or Best Buy permanently lose the ability to access
purchased digital content? In some instances, people who legitimately purchased in excess of $1,000 worth of digital content from Microsoft had their account banned, and can no longer access what they paid for.
So, if that isn't the case, then just please, please educate yourself or move on, because what you are trying to do is compare things that have no substantive similarities. I haven't followed Amazon or Best Buy bans much, but if they do actually behave like this as well, I'll steer clear. Otherwise, I assume that an Amazon or Best Buy "ban" only prohibits certain things.