DRM
Xbox Live Arcade DRM
01/06/2007 05:33 PM Filed in:
Miscellaneous
Are you an Xbox 360 owner and thinking
of buying content from the Xbox Live Arcade? Are you also still deluded in
thinking that the Xbox 360 doesn't have any overheating issues even after the launch of the new
Xbox 360 Elite?
Read this forum thread with 2000+ replies over on the official Xbox forums and think again before spending your valuable Microsoft points:
Cant play full versions of Arcade Games
To summarise, any Xbox Live Arcade purchases you make are tied to your console's serial number via your Gamertag. Should your console die and you are given a replacement, or you buy a new console, re-downloading your purchases via your Gamertag on your new console limits you to full versions only whilst you are connected to Xbox Live.
Disconnecting or signing off for any reason, reverts your Xbox Live Arcade purchases to trial versions. The exact same scenario when taking your Xbox 360 hard drive over to your friends house and trying to play your purchases on his or her console.
There is currently no official solution from Microsoft on re-establishing full rights to your purchases on your new console.
For all the flack that Sony's PlayStation 3 has received, online purchases/downloads have at the very least been implemented the right and fair way.
Read this forum thread with 2000+ replies over on the official Xbox forums and think again before spending your valuable Microsoft points:
Cant play full versions of Arcade Games
To summarise, any Xbox Live Arcade purchases you make are tied to your console's serial number via your Gamertag. Should your console die and you are given a replacement, or you buy a new console, re-downloading your purchases via your Gamertag on your new console limits you to full versions only whilst you are connected to Xbox Live.
Disconnecting or signing off for any reason, reverts your Xbox Live Arcade purchases to trial versions. The exact same scenario when taking your Xbox 360 hard drive over to your friends house and trying to play your purchases on his or her console.
There is currently no official solution from Microsoft on re-establishing full rights to your purchases on your new console.
For all the flack that Sony's PlayStation 3 has received, online purchases/downloads have at the very least been implemented the right and fair way.
The Last Gasp of DRM?
19/02/2007 11:23 AM Filed in:
Miscellaneous
It seems that Steve Jobs got under the
skin of quite a few organisations with his Thoughts on Music piece. And as could be
expected many of those same organisations began squealing like pigs
at the mere mention of DRM being scrapped any time soon.
Macrovision, a long time purveyor of such 'quality' DRM, responded to Steve Jobs in an open letter which Daring Fireball has kindly unravelled for us all to read and digest:
Macrovision Translation
Macrovision, a long time purveyor of such 'quality' DRM, responded to Steve Jobs in an open letter which Daring Fireball has kindly unravelled for us all to read and digest:
Macrovision Translation
The Music Industry and DRM
07/02/2007 03:47 PM Filed in:
Miscellaneous
Steve Jobs has published a well written piece on
the current state of DRM in the music
industry:
Thoughts on Music
Daring Fireball has published an equally well written response further expanding some of points raised by Jobs:
Reading Between the Lines
Interesting times are most definitely ahead.
Thoughts on Music
Daring Fireball has published an equally well written response further expanding some of points raised by Jobs:
Reading Between the Lines
Interesting times are most definitely ahead.