At last, Microsoft is ending P2P party chat, replacing with server based, No more IP...

technically he has done nothing wrong having your IP address as its public and if microsoft have banned this person then their must have been threatening messages from him or Microsoft has just banned someone with no evidence. if he kicks you off then that
is illegal but Microsoft cannot do anything about that as that would happen off their network so they can't see it.

IP pulling from parties is coming to an end soon as Microsoft is making party chat server based instead of P2P. The problem with this is the party chats can be monitored by Microsoft and possibly ban people for swearing in those chats too.

they are public addresses anyway, you can get an ip without special tools. it's just there are those daft morons that like to play god and do something stupid.

microsoft could mitigate the issue by stepping up the transfer of party chat to server based then all ip addresses would be masked, but that does not help when you play P2P online games which there are a lot of them still. having dedicated servers for all games would be the only solution and that i'm afraid won't happen as smaller game companies cannot afford to pay for the servers, as most if not all third party publishers and devs pay for the servers for their games be it dedicated or P2P.

they pull your ip from the party chat system, microsoft are slowing transitioning this to server based so they cant pull ip addresses, they should be done soon hopefully, i posted about it the other day with the source link too.

changing IP means even that site no longer has your IP. Microsoft are moving parties over to server based which will stop IP pulling when in parties.

the majority of games you play over live are actually on third party servers which are not controlled or paid for by microsoft. your IP is only masked if you are on dedicated servers that has that option enabled.

even party chat on xbox still uses direct connections and not server based (they are in the process of changing the party system to server based to mask ip's)

its all good having a vpn but that can still be taken down via ddos also. (also vpn's can add latency and can actually get you banned in some games if you are appearing in another region that is not your own.

ip addresses are public and anybody can freely view them, its what they choose to do with them that becomes illegal, when that happens report to your ISP.