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| OmegaDog
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|  "Re(1):Aussies may be left XBox-less"
, posted Tue 22 Oct 15:34
I suppose it does make economic sense to pull out of Australia if you're only thinking with regards to console and software sales. However, Microsoft seems to be disregarding the concept of public relations: if your console provider automatically assumed the worst of you (i.e. that you're a thief), that really wouldn't leave the best image of Microsoft in your mind as a console provider, would it? If you were to do an important market survey for a third-party software, would it really encourage you to say that you were an owner and supporter of a console made by such a company?
Either way, let's hope Australia has no financial reason to bend to Microsoft's rule. It'd be best to have the world's governments not ruled by corporations who don't represent the public interest.
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[sarcasm]It's too bad Microsoft just doesn't have you register your software with them over the internet like with WinXP. Thats not totally intrusive and doesn't create unneccesary hassles when legitamate customers try to upgrade their systems.[/sarcasm]
Actually, there was a rather alarming part of that article (in bold...):
Mod chips have been a headache for game hardware makers for years, but Microsoft has been particularly aggressive in fighting the hacker tools. The company changed the innards of the Xbox partly to deter hackers, sought to hire an Xbox hacking expert and may use the upcoming Xbox Live online service to detect mod chips.
Microsoft needs to be slammed for even considering this course of action. Make a call to your favorite local privacy-advocating intellectual property lawyer today!
[Really, though -- let's hope there are intellectual property lawyers who watch Microsoft with regards to this proposal, and can jump on Microsoft with lawsuits the first moment it goes into action.]
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| Radish 445th Post
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| "Re(2):Aussies may be left XBox-less" , posted Tue 22 Oct 15:51
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I suppose it does make economic sense to pull out of Australia if you're only thinking with regards to console and software sales. However, Microsoft seems to be disregarding the concept of public relations: if your console provider automatically assumed the worst of you (i.e. that you're a thief), that really wouldn't leave the best image of Microsoft in your mind as a console provider, would it? If you were to do an important market survey for a third-party software, would it really encourage you to say that you were an owner and supporter of a console made by such a company?
Either way, let's hope Australia has no financial reason to bend to Microsoft's rule. It'd be best to have the world's governments not ruled by corporations who don't represent the public interest.
[sarcasm]It's too bad Microsoft just doesn't have you register your software with them over the internet like with WinXP. Thats not totally intrusive and doesn't create unneccesary hassles when legitamate customers try to upgrade their systems.[/sarcasm]
Actually, there was a rather alarming part of that article (in bold...):
Mod chips have been a headache for game hardware makers for years, but Microsoft has been particularly aggressive in fighting the hacker tools. The company changed the innards of the Xbox partly to deter hackers, sought to hire an Xbox hacking expert and may use the upcoming Xbox Live online service to detect mod chips.
Microsoft needs to be slammed for even considering this course of action. Make a call to your favorite local privacy-advocating intellectual property lawyer today!
[Really, though -- let's hope there are intellectual property lawyers who watch Microsoft with regards to this proposal, and can jump on Microsoft with lawsuits the first moment it goes into action.]
I don't support moding systems to pirate games at all, but people who mod their systems to play import games are generally the strongest supporters. I'm glad that Sony's idiotic mod chip protection failed; it was punishing the wrong people since those that pirate games could just patch the ISO to get around the protection (I hear) or use a Gameshark to bypass it. And really, it's hard for me to believe an company that's made such huge profits of the videogame industry (Sony) is losing large sums of money to pirates. That's like crying for Donald Trump when temporary employees steal office supplies.
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