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elnino334 on 27 March 2008

http://kotaku.com/372728/how-to-get-around-microsofts-shitty-drm

How To Get Around Microsoft's Shitty DRM

It's a safe assumption: many of you will have been jerked around by Microsoft's bum digital rights management setup for the 360. You've bought content, lost a console, and now can't play arcade games or use DLC unless you're online. Chin up, eh? Courtesy of Consumerist reader James, there's a way around it! James called up Microsoft support and hassled them about transferring the license from his old console to his new, replacement one. Voilà! The content was tagged to his new 360 instead of the old one, and James can play with the stuff he paid for whenever and wherever he likes. As should always have been the case. Only downside? There's two: it took 32 days for Microsoft to transfer the license, and there's no way of confirming whether this was due to some new Microsoft policy or the fact James is an expert at complaining.
Microsoft May Slowly Be Fixing Their Broken XBOX DRM [Consumerist] [Pic]



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IllegalPaladin on 27 March 2008

Correct me if I'm wrong, the content is tied to the specific 360 rather than the Xbox Live account? Shoot, good thing for the PSN and especially Steam for that matter. I couldn't imagine how upset I'd be if everything on Steam was tied specifically to my PC rather than the Steam account.



NintendoMan on 27 March 2008

Good to see MS is doing stuff to help people recently, now if they could just get rid of the RRoD.



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mrstickball on 27 March 2008

This DRM issue is a non-issue. These idiots just don't understand how to fix it.

We've been over this a few times on how to fix the DRM issue:

#1. Sign into your current XBL account (the one that paid for the content)
#2. Go to the content you've previously downloaded, and paid for
#3. Re-Download the content. It has a check mark on it, and will ask "are you sure you want to re-download content" - Confirm, and re-download.

Content should work. This worked on my X360 over a year ago...And I don't know how this is any different.



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Mistershine on 27 March 2008

@misterstickball
Don't be silly, that would mean people doning it themselves, and that would be too much like hard work.



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mrstickball on 27 March 2008

Yes, and people don't like work. That'd involve....Difficulty!



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mysticD on 27 March 2008

You can redownload it but it won't be tie to your new console.  You will have to be on-line for it to work.

I think MS has got the worst DRM policy ever to be put in place.  If they have better DRM or better transfering scheme I am sure as heck would spend a lot more MS points on games.

They really should give customers option of where they want to "tie" their gamertag to.  May be allow you to do it once every 6 months or when you replace your console.  Go to live and then have option of tie the tag to new console S/N and after that all the items you bought will work on or off-line with new console. 



Mistershine on 27 March 2008

@mystic
I'm pretty sure stickball doesn't have access to LIVE at home and uses his 360 offline most of the time.



mrstickball on 27 March 2008

I don't have access to a live account from my home...Which is why I figured out that my solution works.

I had to goto a friends house (where I originally downloaded the content), and simply re-download the content. It was already on my HDD, but was neutered to trial-only for games I had paid for. Once I re-downloaded, it unlocked the full games that I had.



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.

rocketpig on 27 March 2008

I do not understand how people are doing this... I have had my 360 offline before and still played DLC that was downloaded on my old unit.

Me no understand.




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