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Weird, didn't even know consoles could be remotely bricked.
Over the past couple of days, testers for a company called VMC Games have been leaking out videos from their current build, the upcoming (unannounced) Gears of War remake for Xbox One. Both VMC and Microsoft are not pleased, and today, they came down hard, telling testers in an e-mail that the leakers have been not only banned from VMC’s program, but will lose access to their Xbox Ones entirely for a period of time to be determined by Microsoft in the future.
Weird, didn't even know consoles could be remotely bricked.