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Xbox Fitness users will soon lose access to workout videos they bought
- kevin_b_er 10y agoThey trusted their purchases to a DRM'd video service and likely clicked through a contract denying them class action. As such they can pretty much do nothing about it. May each one make the profound realization how they were legally screwed over.
- mikestew 10y agoThat's why I don't rely on anything DRM'ed from Microsoft (games on Xbone excepted). Movies, music, Xbox Fitness workouts; Microsoft seems to think we've forgotten Plays for Sure and MSN Music. When I first got the Kinect hooked up, I tried the Fitness app and noticed they had other workouts for sale. "Hmm, maybe the wife and I can...wait a minute, what the hell am I thinking buying DRM'ed content from MSFT?" Now, I'll buy the hell out of some iTunes movies or music, and my wife will get stuff off Amazon streaming without me going off on a rant. But that's because neither Amazon nor Apple have ever given me a reason to think I'll regret it later. Microsoft, OTOH, has burned me more than once. Much like the PfS/MSN Music debacle, MSFT could find a solution (I dunno, unDRM the vids, store them locally) but...eh, too much trouble, might cut into someone's bonus.