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Adinnieken on 05 June 2013
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theprof00 said:

A question I had from another thread that could use answering by someone. I only make a thread about it so that it's more visible, hence why the question is in the OP.

The question is:
Being that all my content is locked to my User ID;
If I am a head of household, and I buy 2 xb1's, one for the living room, and one for the guest room, can my friend play in the guest room while I play in the livingroom? 
To put it simply;

Can the games that I OWN be played at the same time on consoles that I OWN?

I guess the simplest fix would be having sub-accounts, but I could also see that abused into getting free or discounted games. 

I could see Microsoft allowing content to exist on up to x number of consoles. 

Currently, music you purchase can exist on up to five devices you own.  It doesn't matter how many of each, be it 5 Xbox consoles, 5 Windows PCs, or 3 Windows Phones, a Windows PC, and an Xbox console.  Five devices can possess and use the content.

What Microsoft could be doing is allowing you to assign content to a device.  So if you log into your consoles, install content on them, those two consoles will appear as legitimate devices for you to use.  Likewise, you could also remove access to that content from one device. 

For secondary use, they could easily require the disc to be present.  Like it currently is for the Xbox 360, or if you don't want or have an always online Internet connection, require the disc to be inside the device in order for the game to continue to be used.

There are a lot of ways to provide DRM and still provide all the features that gamers want, like the ability to share a game or transfer ownership/second-hand sales.  We just have to wait to see how Microsoft handles does it.