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So some Microsoft guy gave an interview in which he hinted people at a possible loophole in the Xbox One license:

While the license seems to clearly distinguish between "your family" and "friends" and gives users from the "your family" group access to some nice features like being able to play your games while you don't, Microsoft would in practice hardly be capable of checking if a certain person is really from your actual family or not. So you could in theory simply declare some random person 3000 miles away as being part of "your family", which would allow him to play your games etc.

Call me paranoid, but I find it very hard to believe that Microsoft wrote "your family" when they actually meant "pretty much anyone". Instead I believe that they were perfectly aware of the possible abuse and have already considered counter-measures to stop people from simply declaring 10 random people as belonging to their family etc.

So let your imagination run wild: How are they going to do it? Where are the catches?