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You know, if you create a product that is actually good, that doesn't intrude your privacy or removes your rights, you don't need to spin so much in order to make it seem good. Until yesterday, Microsoft told us their DRM was good "because of reasons". It's only natural that those of us gifted with brains failed to understand how it was supposed to be beneficial FOR US.
MS thought they could trample our right to own property and get away with it. The least they could have done now was give a public assurance that they won't try again the moment the current storm has blown over.



"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360

"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed

"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick

"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance