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Amazon Kindle Warning!
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:50 am
by indigolemon
Amazon. Kindle. eBooks. How many of you are making use of these three things regularly? Did you know any books on your Kindle don't belong to you? They are only rented to you by Amazon? Did you know Amazon can close your account, erase your eBooks, and render your Kindle a paperweight without warning, and without having to tell you why?
http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/out ... mazon-drm/
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:55 am
by Lude-dude
well if new xbox console comes out and they bring out a new xbox live
when they eventually shutdown the old one we lose all digital downloads, happened on the last xbox
I always try to get a physical copy of something
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:18 am
by BigTom
It's the same with almost all digital media these days - ebooks, iTunes, digital game downloads. Not an issue for 99.99% of people, but worth being aware of.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:35 am
by jjmartin349571
Lude-dude wrote:well if new xbox console comes out and they bring out a new xbox live
when they eventually shutdown the old one we lose all digital downloads, happened on the last xbox
I always try to get a physical copy of something
If you go online to the xbox live website you can move your licences relating to downloads over to your current xbox - this ensures that you can use DLC without a connection to xbox live. Then when the old xbox live goes down it won't be a problem, you can still play your DLC
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:45 am
by Lude-dude
maybe depends on what microsoft do
say the xbox 720 or whatever comes out, with a new xbox live service
will we be able to use our downloads on it?
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:53 am
by Donald
Probably, but then that would be like playing PS2 games on a PS3. Utterly crap.
Don't have my Xbox plugged into the internet at the moment and can still play my DLed games.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:06 am
by RattyMcClelland
Xbox fail
Ps3 win.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:08 am
by jjmartin349571
Lude-dude wrote:maybe depends on what microsoft do
say the xbox 720 or whatever comes out, with a new xbox live service
will we be able to use our downloads on it?
I'm not suggesting that, just saying that any DLC you have on your 360 will still work without xbox live, provided you've updated your licence to register the software to your current console. If the DLC was downloaded on that console, the licence won't even need updating, it'll work offline from day 1
Realistically though, will you still play the 360 after the new one comes out? I spent hundreds on my PS2, now it's in a box in the loft
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:12 am
by indigolemon
RattyMcClelland wrote:Xbox fail
Ps3 win.
Whatever, we have the DLC for Skyrim
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:13 am
by jjmartin349571
RattyMcClelland wrote:Xbox fail
Ps3 win.
I have both, absolutely hate the PS3 controller though. It's too small for my hands, and the d-pad and analogue sticks should have their locations swapped - the layout predates the majority of games using the analogue stick
At least it doesn't give you the dreaded Nintendo 64 'claw hands' though
