>the effect is the same - they took your stuff. After I wrote my reply I reflected that in this case MS is actively, directly depriving you of access to the yo

>the effect is the same - they took your stuff. After I wrote my reply I reflected that in this case MS is actively, directly depriving you of access to the your content, a required component of theft, but IMO if a refund is issued before access is revoked then the requirmemts for theft still seem unmet. I also feel customers should be free to circumvent DRM technologies... which would allow the market to help mitigate this type of decieptful, manipulative licensing of content. Seems pretty shitty to not refund the device purchases though.