Microsoft Breaking Warranty Act with Tamper-Resistant Stickers on New Devices

If you’ve purchased new electronics in the last decade, you've probably notice that most of them come with tamper-resistant stickers that are supposed to alert the manufacturer should you make any “unauthorized” modifications to the product.

What most of the buyers don’t know is that these warranty-void-if-removed stickers are actually illegal, according to the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975, but this still isn’t stopping some manufacturers from using them anyway.

Case in point is Microsoft, the Redmond-based software giant that is still shipping new devices with the aforementioned sticker although it’s very clear that they’re illegal and they shouldn’t block users from making any modifications that do not affect the functioning of the device.

The recently launched Xbox One S has such a sticker, and as reported by