g911turbo said:
On top of all that, Microsoft can get rid of it completely should they choose (they say right there on the link everyone keeps referencing, it's in plain fucking English), claiming people are abusing it. |
Not entirely.
In the US, there is case law which governs how one can treat a license. When one purchases a license, they are entitled to the use of that license from that point on. That includes lending it and the resale of it.
They could certainly change aspects of it, however the legal system has already decided that the sale of a physical copy and the sale of a digital licence to use, are in essence the same.
The EU legal system, has likewise decided similiarly.
So there is at least a basic legal foundation from which both consumers and content producers have to start with and can rely upon. An attempt by any company to abridge those rights would be met, as they have been in the past, with a lawsuit.
As I have said elsewhere, digital content and DRM is where things are headed. People can stick their heads in the sand and say I won't participate, and they can protest, but the reality is that consumer convience rules. The better option is to figure out what does or doesn't work and be vocal about what doesn't work.
This is a much broader discussion than Microsoft, the Xbox One, and gaming. Content across all media forms is moving digital and consumers are the ones that should be setting the expectations. Not by ranting about what possibly could be, because companies will sit there and say "That's not what we're doing, so we're ok.", and not about what misinformation on the subject you heard, because likewise they'll say the same. But what is it specifically about what they're doing and how they're doing it don't you like, and how would you change or improve it so it would be acceptable to you?
Until you get there, until you're helping to move toward the goal rather than fighting against it, people won't listen to you. Like I said, content is going digital. You can either consider all aspects of your physical media use today, how you'd want a digital content future to fit into that, and communicate that or be a luddite that yells and screams, or bitches and snides about digital content and DRM.
What Microsoft has proposed for DRM on the Xbox One seems reasonable. It's better than the DRM on Xbox 360, the PS3, and the PS4, with the one exception that of offline and secondary-system play. And I have personally communicated my issue with that to Microsoft along with how I would solve those problems.
Your purpose isn't to communicate real issues, because what you're talking about isn't a real issue. It's called F.U.D.; Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. There is just as much uncertainty with the Xbox One's DRM as there is with the PS4's. Was Sony not absolute when it said that Online Multiplayer would be free on PSN? Huh. Guess such absolute statements aren't as absolute as they really are. Things change, but unlike the promise of an alternative OS on the PS3 or free multiplayer on PSN, licensing has a legal foundation from which consumers can will, and should take a stand if content providers attempt to abridge or infringe those rights.
TL;DR: STFU unless you have something constructive to actually say.
