| Porcupine_I said: Who cares if i can play the games i bought on my old console, i can play them on my old console in the future. But what about the games i buy for my new console, will i be able to play them in the future? In a time where games are more and more dependend on online features and DRM, cloud processing and external servers, will i be able to play them in 10 or 20 years from now, or will my console be a expensive brick once the servers been shut down for some reason? there are already games this generation that have been crippled by shutting down server support for online play, but with recent developments it means every single game you buy could be rendered unplayable once it is disconnected from either side of the internet. Do you think there is even some kind of plan in place for this scenario to make games avaliable after the support for the concoles has run out, or do they only think about the here and now and how they can get to our money?
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Technically this isn't true.
DRM in the US cannot be circumvented lawfully for active products. However, for products no longer supported DRM can be circumvented. This was included in the US because of DIVX, the video disc rental/purchase media/hardware system released in the 1990's. When the company behind it went under, people who had bought DIVX movies lost their content. The only option for them was to circumvent the DRM.
Unfortunately for the DVD industry, the gain of losing DIVX as a competing format brought the technology learned in removing DRM/Copy protection from video discs and ripping discs to HDDs.
The technology that hackers/pirates have developed previously on the Xbox 360 could be used in the future to circumvent DRM on the console when and if Microsoft ever deactivates the DRM.
Europe is a completely different beast, as there any attempt to circumvent DRM is illegal.
