[QUOTE="wapahala"]

That fee-thing means that you can give the game to a friend, and he gets it for über cheap. You and a friend can buy a game, one installs it, the other pays the fee, and they split the price. HURR!

syztem

I doubt you'll be able to register the product to more than one machine at a time. That technology already exists.

MS has also said that they're the ones who are going to allow for used game sales. My money is on once you sell the game, or once it gets registered on another machine, your rights to that data on your harddrive disappear.

To be honest that would actually be a pretty fair system. If you sell your game your installation fails because it is being played somewhere else and in order to re-authenticate you need to shove the disc into your console.

But I really don't like DRM in general.

One thing that consistently flashed over my mind as I watched the XBox One console announcement is how creepy the features were.

It's full of proprietary technologies that nobody outside Microsoft knows about or really fully understands. It's always connected to the internet. It has a 1080p camera that can track your motion and a microphone that can catch audio from your entire living room and recognize who is saying what. It also recognizes your appearance and is, thus, able to track you. On top of all this it can connect to tons of different devices in your household to control them when given voice commands.

A virus on this... or heck the CIA or something using a doubtlessly built in back-door, could suddenly turn this machine into a real version HAL 3000 or something ridiculous like that. The technology is definitely there. And if you think you won't be vulnerable to viruses - it's running x86_64 on the Windows NT kernel and it is using Internet Explorer. It'll be struck by all the same viruses that can strike Windows 8 Pro because all the same attack vectors are present.

This console really makes me feel unsafe. I don't want it in my household. Am I just being paranoid or is there legitimacy to what I'm saying?

One thing that consistently flashed over my mind as I watched the XBox One console announcement is how creepy the features were.

It's full of proprietary technologies that nobody outside Microsoft knows about or really fully understands. It's always connected to the internet. It has a 1080p camera that can track your motion and a microphone that can catch audio from your entire living room and recognize who is saying what. It also recognizes your appearance and is, thus, able to track you. On top of all this it can connect to tons of different devices in your household to control them when given voice commands.

A virus on this... or heck the CIA or something using a doubtlessly built in back-door, could suddenly turn this machine into a real version HAL 3000 or something ridiculous like that. The technology is definitely there. And if you think you won't be vulnerable to viruses - it's running x86_64 on the Windows NT kernel and it is using Internet Explorer. It'll be struck by all the same viruses that can strike Windows 8 Pro because all the same attack vectors are present.

This console really makes me feel unsafe. I don't want it in my household. Am I just being paranoid or is there legitimacy to what I'm saying?