http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/ Engadget Comments for Get down and dirty with Xbox 360's DRM / license transfer tool http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 26th 2008 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/
I hope they get rid of DRM altogether one of these days.]]>Jun 26th 2008 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 27th 2008 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/
I've got Limewire, Frostwire, Bittorent and whatever else they release to make things easier for me.

Not so easy for the RIAA to put together enough manpower to search for someone who wardrives and wiijacks with an EeePC and a 500 GB hard drive.]]>Jun 26th 2008 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 26th 2008 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 26th 2008 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/
I'm pretty sure MS will waive the "once per year" thing if you explain to them the circumstances (RROD, etc) just like they'll allow you to re-authenticate a copy of Windows.]]>Jun 26th 2008 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/
@Flashpoint: Sit on it, Potsie!]]>Jun 27th 2008 2:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 27th 2008 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 26th 2008 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 26th 2008 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 26th 2008 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 27th 2008 12:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/This new tool allows you in a way to UN-link it from your account so other people on the same console can play the game without having to sign in online with your account.

What surprises me is that they would still let you play the games on your original console as long as you are signed in online,
which is great for me because I've been thinking of buying a new Xbox for the living room with HDMI, then move my current one to the bedroom.
This means that I will still be able to play my games in the bedroom as long as I'm online. (which would be easy since I'll be using that Xbox as media center extender and it will always be online)]]>Jun 27th 2008 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 26th 2008 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 26th 2008 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 26th 2008 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 27th 2008 1:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/So if your 360 RROD more than once a year, or you buy a new console, you're SOL until the 12 months are up.]]>Jun 26th 2008 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 26th 2008 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 26th 2008 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 26th 2008 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/
DRM that actually restricts you unfairly sucks, but if it's completely transparent what are you complaining for?]]>Jun 27th 2008 12:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/
1. Yay Microsoft for finally becoming more user acessable.
2. This is FAR too late. Really, really, really, really, really really late.
3. Did I mention that this is coming way too late?
]]>Jun 26th 2008 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/
Fortunately I have zero DRM'd content on my 360 (and close to zero on my computer).]]>Jun 26th 2008 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Archaic means old, outdated, whereas arcane means "That which is kept hidden and secret."]]>Jun 26th 2008 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 26th 2008 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 26th 2008 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/
Typical Microsoft buffoonery.

The web interface is fine, and works well enough.

But then you have to go to your Xbox and sort through a massive list of everything you've ever downloaded, from demos to full games, and sort out which were actually full games, then individually re-download ever single thing. If you're like me and have a few dozen purchased games, the process could take hours.

It's tedius and ill-conceived.

And the 12-month limit and not applying licence transfers to videos is insulting.

Sorry MS, still boycotting Xbox Live's draconian DRM.]]>Jun 27th 2008 12:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/
I'm guessing the 12 month thing is because of licensing between Microsoft and the content providers. That is, there probably exists two companies, A and B, such that A doesn't care how many times a piece of content is transferred but B requires it not be done more than once every year. And since the whole point is consolidating the licenses, they had to go with the longest required wait period. Of course, company B may be Microsoft itself.

BTW, did anyone figure out how to view their purchase history online? I see a link on the DRM page, but it just leads to billing.microsoft.com where I am unable to find such information.]]>Jun 27th 2008 1:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/
Billing shows your purchase history for the past 12 months. You can manually change the URL to go back an additional two months. Anything past 14 months is either flush from or inaccessible through billing.microsoft.com.

You can view your entire download history on your 360 by going through Account Management -> Download History. Then you can proceed to painfully & slowly re-download/re-authorize your content, one item at a time, as long as the lowly six-item download queue isn't full.

I'm hoping that the next dashboard update will allow you to checkbox download history items for background downloading en masse, although I suspect that Microsoft will keep things cumbersome to prevent some portion of people from subjecting themselves to it more than once.]]>Jun 27th 2008 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/
Microsoft is so great!

]]>Jun 27th 2008 3:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 27th 2008 4:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 27th 2008 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/Jun 27th 2008 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/get-down-and-dirty-with-xbox-360s-drm-license-transfer-tool/1. Make sure you're signed in to Xbox LIVE with this account: *********.
2. Go to Xbox LIVE Marketplace and select Account Management, Download History.
3. Select an item and then select Download Again.
4. Repeat step 3 for each item in your download history. ]]>Jun 28th 2008 2:18AM