flint757
Well-Known Member
Xbox One Policies 'Alienated Entire Military'; Entertainment Research Forecasts Trouble
Things aren't looking so good for Microsoft at the moment.
Visual DRM patent
This won't happen (at least I sincerely hope not
), but that's not why I'm posting this second link. It is ridiculous that companies can (and do) purchase patents for things they have ZERO intent on implementing. Maybe it is just me, but a patent should only be allowed if there is genuine intent to make/sell a product using said patent. After a certain time frame of inactivity they should become null and void. I'm sick of this IP war going on and ATM these companies are fighting for/against each other not the consumers. I mean Directv filed for a similar patent which would only benefit advertisers and this would only benefit the industry if it were ever implemented (and not by enough IMO to justify the invasion of privacy).
One comment summed it up best, our rights as consumers are getting stripped little by little everyday and it either doesn't affect enough of us or isn't a huge deal so we let it slide (I'm admittedly guilty of this sometimes as well). Something similar to price creep (think gas/petrol prices) where it happens so slowly that we accept it little by little. I'm an honest consumer who doesn't pirate, buys new when I can, goes to the movies, pitches in when I don't have to, etc. yet get screwed regularly. It's one thing to implement some sort of reasonable protection, but it never seems to end they just keep piling on and making it more cumbersome all the time.
/rant
phew
Things aren't looking so good for Microsoft at the moment.
Visual DRM patent
This won't happen (at least I sincerely hope not
), but that's not why I'm posting this second link. It is ridiculous that companies can (and do) purchase patents for things they have ZERO intent on implementing. Maybe it is just me, but a patent should only be allowed if there is genuine intent to make/sell a product using said patent. After a certain time frame of inactivity they should become null and void. I'm sick of this IP war going on and ATM these companies are fighting for/against each other not the consumers. I mean Directv filed for a similar patent which would only benefit advertisers and this would only benefit the industry if it were ever implemented (and not by enough IMO to justify the invasion of privacy).One comment summed it up best, our rights as consumers are getting stripped little by little everyday and it either doesn't affect enough of us or isn't a huge deal so we let it slide (I'm admittedly guilty of this sometimes as well). Something similar to price creep (think gas/petrol prices) where it happens so slowly that we accept it little by little. I'm an honest consumer who doesn't pirate, buys new when I can, goes to the movies, pitches in when I don't have to, etc. yet get screwed regularly. It's one thing to implement some sort of reasonable protection, but it never seems to end they just keep piling on and making it more cumbersome all the time.
/rant
phew
I'm more biased towards Sony since they're giving the publishers the option, while Xbox is like ".... YOU YOU'RE GETTING DRM WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT."
I had been discussing all of this with my wife leading up to E3 and had been steadily dismissing all the hyper fear-mongering and speculation. I still don't think that Microsoft's DRM is as invasive as it could have been. However, I had never really thought about the military component until someone on this forum brought it up and I really wanted to give MS the benefit of the doubt that maybe they just hadn't thought of it either. 
