| wick said: Physical media are things you own and can do whatever you want with. Digital media can be taken from you at any time and has restrictions on it. |
Not true.
You have the same rights with digital content as you do with content on physical media. Both US and EU courts have sided with consumers in this regards.
The only time you do not have rights to the content is if you are clearly in a rental/let/lend/lease situation. If you're buying content, regardless of whether you're buying a license to it or the physical media, you have the same rights. Which is why Microsoft has approached digital content the way it has with the Xbox One. All these rulings regarding licenses and digital content have come in the past 5 years or so.
US courts have made two rulings, one regarding the right to resell licenses and to be able to determine the cost of that license upon resale, the second I can't remember but it affirmed the rights of the consumer. The EU courts recently affirmed that consumers have the right to sell digital content.
Xbox One does the following:
- You still have the right to resell licensed content purchase via retail disc. No current word regarding the resale of digital content, but since the ruling in Germany is recent, I can imagine Microsoft's policies haven't fell inline with the EU ruling. Likewise, this could become a world-wide ability or it may only be regional (i.e. Europe).
- You still have the right to lend any game and DLC content to anyone on your friends list via a "Family" grouping.
- You still have the right to archive your physical media and in the case of digital content, Microsoft provides unlimited storage that is accessable to you 24/7 365, from anywhere in the world.
So the only thing Microsoft has to comment on is the ability to sell digital content purchased online.
