Microsoft releases tool to fix Xbox 360 DRM
Posted Jun 26th 2008 3:15PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News, Xbox Live, Xbox Live Marketplace
Tags: drm, xblm, xbox-live
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6-26-2008 @ 4:01PM
CyberKnight said...
12 months seems a little extreme. 6 months might've been a better compromise between failure rate and preventing overuse.
But then, the "24 hours to watch a movie" is pretty extreme, too, so I guess it's to be expected. :/
Still, it'll be nice to finally unlock the few licenses I still have tied to my first 360 that was store-replaced almost two years ago. I'll take it.
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6-26-2008 @ 4:04PM
Sinnix said...
re-download everything??! what?! FAIL! According to that website I have 779 game licenses spread across four different consoles. 779! That will take forever!
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6-26-2008 @ 6:15PM
tan said...
oh c'mon guys!
even if you have like 400+ all you really have to do is just download them when you wanna play them!
like you don't have to download all of them, just what you need/want!
like a game that came out 2 years ago, you may have got some dlc for it, butyou might not even play it anymore!
so you may as well not bother deleting the stuff:)
6-26-2008 @ 4:48PM
Phawx said...
For real. You guys are STILL COMPLAINING!?!? For effs sake, if your console fails it will automatically transfer to the new repair.
You have 700 licenses scattered across 4 boxes. If you consolidate all of them to one (1!!!) xbox and THAT Xbox fails they will transfer ALL 700 to the new repair. you don't have to wait 12 months to transfer AGAIN.
Seriously guys, god damn. The PS3 has an even WORSE situation since they changed how their DRM works and you don't see NEARLY the amount of complaints from them.
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6-26-2008 @ 5:52PM
Neuromancer said...
You're right, it's not a pain in the ass solution to something that never should have been a problem in the first place. Thanks for putting everything into perspective.
Now, excuse me while I go redownload 925 licenses to software/DLC purchased over the lifespan of 5 consoles over the last 2 years. It may take a while.
6-26-2008 @ 7:44PM
Phawx said...
Hold on, perhaps I wasn't clear. I am only talking about people complaining about the 12 MONTH cycle to renew licenses. This is a one time deal. When you consolidate your licenses, IF you 360 were to fail, everything would be on the new console.
That is ALL I was ranting about. Yes for people that have a lot of Gamerpics/themes/dlc/XBLA games (I have 550+ myself across four 360's [None RRoD btw,]) it would be a pain to redownload ALL of that. But realistically I only would want to have my XBLA games on and my favorite theme and gamerpic up. So I am only really interested in MAYBE 60 licenses.
But that's just me.
6-26-2008 @ 8:43PM
Mrblonde said...
I have only had to send my system in once and it was the one I got on launch day. Then the second one broke (which I kinda caused cause it sounded like a jet) and I had purchased a warranty with Circuit City and it was still under it so I got a gift card for four hundred to buy a new one and got the elite. No problems for me.
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6-27-2008 @ 6:46AM
Aeikozz said...
Am i the only one that noticed he renewed the license to Ninja Gaiden 2 Demo? um... that doesn't have a license...
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6-27-2008 @ 10:18AM
OrionnoirO said...
Oh teh noes! Teh skies are fallin!
Give it up. Nearly everything you download (purchased or free, demo or not, etc) has a license attached to it. So that means, really, you arent moving THAT many licenses. I had 800+, and I am in less than an hour already past 400. So unless you are really really in need of renewing that license for Bullet Witch demo, dont. Only do the xbla games, and addons for the games you bought. The demos, free videos, etc. you dont need to renew. Not to mention as others have said, if you still have the content on your drive - all you redownload is the DRM file which takes seconds. And, if anything goes wrong with your console - repair will do the move next time, this is ONLY for those who have purchased a replacement or exchanged at a retailer.
Basically, I am VERY happy with this, as it works out great for those of us in the position of loosing internet access and not being able to use the content we bought (or taking to a friends, etc). People just need to quit taking everything to the extreme simply because they want to exaggerate it or dont understand it.
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6-27-2008 @ 1:36PM
TSlade said...
Crap. I thought this might mean I could play Arcade games on the 360 at my office (no net hookup). Me no happy.
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