Nope kinect is only has enough power so it can hear xbox on nothing else. And Microsoft isnt stopping you from selling your games. You can still sell them to retailers and other people.
Adinnieken said:
I don't believe it would. DRM is not controlled by any EU directive (law). Instead, it's controlled by International Treaty. The 1996 World Intellectual Property Organization treaty required those who signed onto the treaty to implement legal protections for technological prevention measures (DRM). In fact, the EU directive is more restrictive than the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the US. EDIT: |
this isn't all about DRM though. like i said in my last post the real grounds here (for the consumer) is the % of your resell value MS/publishers are taking. the property is yours once it is sold to you and you shouldn't owe MS/EA a half-penny of money for the right to resell what you rightfully purchased.
the restriction in whom you can resell to is a different issue. depends on how it plays out but it could interfere with free markets. in otherwords if MS only approves gamestop to be the used game vendor for the US the anti-monopoly laws will kick in as well.
as of know i can't see kinect being an issue mostly because while people don't like their personal data being sold there isn't really any laws against it yet. i know there have been talks about writing such laws in the US but so far they haven't gone anywhere. so technically MS could sell everything they collect from your (save your credit card number) and face no reprocussion other than bad PR. ..as far as i know.
| hivycox said: They are already criticising it here in germany because of the surveillance issue of the kinect! |
The US must be using Kinect to spy on other countries. No wonder why the Micro brand is so strong there. #TheUSWantsToTakeOverMyCountry
Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1
kitler53 said:
the restriction in whom you can resell to is a different issue. depends on how it plays out but it could interfere with free markets. in otherwords if MS only approves gamestop to be the used game vendor for the US the anti-monopoly laws will kick in as well. as of know i can't see kinect being an issue mostly because while people don't like their personal data being sold there isn't really any laws against it yet. i know there have been talks about writing such laws in the US but so far they haven't gone anywhere. so technically MS could sell everything they collect from your (save your credit card number) and face no reprocussion other than bad PR. ..as far as i know. |
It isn't a monopoly, it may be a trust or collusion, but I'm not even 100% sure of that. First of all, in the US there are no rights regarding the first sale doctrine within the digital sphere. That exists only in the EU. There are no laws in the EU regarding the regulation of second-hand digital sales. There is a ruling, a ruling is not law.
So, as long as Microsoft satisfies the ruling they're not going to violate any law. Likewise, as long as they aren't dictating to a retailer how much to pay per license to the consumer, then they're not in violoation of any trust or monopoly laws. The reason is, Microsoft is still in control of the process that allows a digital sale. Nothing says Microsoft can't charge a fee to transfer a license digitally from one consumer to the next, which the retailer has chosen to facilitate. That isn't to say that other laws couldn't be enacted or won't, but right now there are no laws that dictate what must happen. The only thing that exists is that Microsoft must allow it and because of the way they do DRM must provide the means to do it.
| blabliblu said: In Europe it is illegal to prevent you from selling what you own and in fact it is also illegal to prevent you using what you own. There's no doubt that when the Xbone is out, consumer associations and some european representative will act against these practices |
Why isn't the iPhone sold in europe without anyone taking Apple to the courts? It is legal to resell software in europe - even downloads - if you find a way to manage the transfer. But so far no court deemed it illegal to prevent said transfer.
Its a lot easier to sell used items in the US then in Europe. You have tons of pawn shops, thrift shops and other stores that only sell used goods. If anything it would be illegal in the US before Europe.
Mnementh said:
Which laws do you mean? There were lawsuits that decided that it is legal to sell used software. but no lawsuits that forbade making techniques for making reselling software hard or impossible. So I don't see a base, on which XBone is unlawful here. |
Seems a recent law
A recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union has officially stated that “an author of software cannot oppose the resale of his ‘used’ licences allowing the use of his programs downloaded from the internet”. In essence, it is now illegal in Europe for companies to try to stop you from selling your used digitally distributed software.
The exclusive right of distribution of a copy of a computer program covered by such a licence is exhausted on its first sale.
http://www.lo-ping.org/2012/07/03/eu-court-ruling-allows-for-re-sale-of-used-games-by-end-users-you/
| ilovegodzilla said: |
This is basically a call to make owning a videocamera illegal...
| Azerth said: Nope kinect is only has enough power so it can hear xbox on nothing else. |
lol.. just lol (/insert picardfacepalm.jpg)
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