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C’mon guys, there has to be ways to do more of these around the world. I’m looking at you, specifically, Toronto.
– Steven
Technology
Microsoft’s About-Face on DRM
Remember how Microsoft’s DRM/Once-a-day Internet connection on XBox had everyone angry? Well, they’re taking it out.
Of course removing it changes some features:
- Physically purchased games won’t “follow” the player to other machines (digital content will of course). You’ll need to take the disk with you.
- Game sharing with family members is gone.
That tells me one important thing – Microsoft really figured people were going to go for this or accept it, it’s integrated enough into their plans and technology. I think they were actually surprised (and it seems this will be removed at first login, so they really were planning on this going through).
This is good overall. Microsoft listened. I’m hoping that will steer the Xbox towards a better evolution toward the seemingly inevitable living room media machine.
– Steven
Kill Your Cable A Year (and more) Later
As we migrated to MuseHack, I got to review past series, and by review I mean suddenly discover the insane amount of links I had to check and reconfigure. This got me looking back at my own attempts to Kill Your Cable and what I learned.
Well that’s been over a year, Fan To Pro is now MuseHack, and I figured I’d share the repercussions now that the lack of cable has had time to become part of my life. Or not part of my life. Or something.
Let’s face it, cable has been part of our lives and culture, the fact we can and are leaving it is affecting our lives, our media consumption – and the technical direction of various companies.