Adinnieken said:
LurkerJ said:
I think people bring up internet outages just to complain more. Check ins every 24 hours wouldn't have been a concern if they weren't there to enforce DRM and stop rentals. Check-in is the least of xbone problems, there are other several issues that still need more clarifications, more than what's mentioned on xbox wire.
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They're not there to stop rentals. Disc-based rentals are not possible with retail discs because the first person to install the game would own it.
The disc is just a medium to transport the digital content.
That said, what needs to be worked out is how you could allow rentals. My thoughts is that rental services would need to purchase special discs that function differently than regular retail discs. They would still use DRM, but the key would limit limit the functionality or disable the game after x number of days, with or without a check-in.
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Those would work just fine, unique activation codes for rentals.
OR, for the first time, they can introduce online rentals that either disable after x many days or allow you to pay more for additional days. OR a Netflix like rental subscription service that just lets you download whatever one at a time.
See, this is what happens when we start thinking about the potential of what the DRM opens up instead of just what it takes away.
