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This is a pretty bold move by them. They're essentially getting rid of all the changes to the DRM set up from the 360 (which also has DRM; this isn't a complete
by timdorr 13y ago
This is a pretty bold move by them. They're essentially getting rid of all the changes to the DRM set up from the 360 (which also has DRM; this isn't a complete removal), including all the beneficial changes. Of course, they weren't that compelling to me and introduced a lot of confusion about how they would work and exactly what limitations would be put in place.
Looks like they're still going to struggle with the Kinect privacy concerns, but that's more of a PR battle than an actual privacy one. You can turn off Kinect, but you couldn't turn off the Xbox DRM system.
- philwelch 13y agoBold? More like desperate. Not doing this would have killed Xbox.
- HelloMcFly 13y ago> Looks like they're still going to struggle with the Kinect privacy concerns I can't help but wonder. Of all of the issues with the XB1, that one seems like my candidate for biggest disconnect between what people say online and what popular perception actually is. I know I don't care, nor do any of my gamer friends, nor my brother.
- chokolad 13y agoDo you own an iPad or a laptop with a web cam and microphone?
- falcolas 13y agoNot with one that's active 100% of the time. Which may not be completely accurate, the XB1 mic is on all the time by default, but I'm not sure about the camera. The benefit of my laptop webcam though is the hardware light built in to indicate when it's active.
- makomk 13y agoSome of those hardware lights can actually be controlled from software, unfortunately.
- mercuryrising 13y agoiPads and laptops aren't sitting there, listening to everything you say, waiting for you to say 'xbox, on!'. It listens to everything you say while waiting for that one command (like Glass, too). It'd be easy to give someone a hook for that audio stream, given the right motivations.
- HelloMcFly 13y ago"Always on" is a price I'm willing to pay for fully voice-controlled functionality. If someone looks at the power usage and network activity of the XB1/Kinect and determines there is something untoward then that will give me pause, but at the present I'm not going to run from the technology because I think Microsoft is trying to record all of my actions.
- nym 13y agoI'm guessing your brother is little, not big ;-)