Have MS commented on their fee-per-user patent?

http://kotaku.com/5958307/this-kinect-patent-is-terrifying-wants-to-charge-you-for-license-violation

This rumor from last year looks more real than ever, considering recent events. Kinect is required, movies and tv are main focus, fees are the name of the game, movie achievements.

http://kotaku.com/5958307/this-kinect-patent-is-terrifying-wants-to-charge-you-for-license-violation

This rumor from last year looks more real than ever, considering recent events. Kinect is required, movies and tv are main focus, fees are the name of the game, movie achievements.

Mandingo101

[QUOTE="Mandingo101"]

http://kotaku.com/5958307/this-kinect-patent-is-terrifying-wants-to-charge-you-for-license-violation

This rumor from last year looks more real than ever, considering recent events. Kinect is required, movies and tv are main focus, fees are the name of the game, movie achievements.

blackace

[QUOTE="blackace"][QUOTE="Mandingo101"]

http://kotaku.com/5958307/this-kinect-patent-is-terrifying-wants-to-charge-you-for-license-violation

This rumor from last year looks more real than ever, considering recent events. Kinect is required, movies and tv are main focus, fees are the name of the game, movie achievements.

Mandingo101

[QUOTE="Mandingo101"]

http://kotaku.com/5958307/this-kinect-patent-is-terrifying-wants-to-charge-you-for-license-violation

This rumor from last year looks more real than ever, considering recent events. Kinect is required, movies and tv are main focus, fees are the name of the game, movie achievements.

blackace

[QUOTE="blackace"][QUOTE="Mandingo101"]

http://kotaku.com/5958307/this-kinect-patent-is-terrifying-wants-to-charge-you-for-license-violation

This rumor from last year looks more real than ever, considering recent events. Kinect is required, movies and tv are main focus, fees are the name of the game, movie achievements.

Heil68

For starters stuff like this gets patented all the time, doesn't mean a company is going to be utilizing its patents in near future, they could just hold onto them for later use, in patent arsenal for future patent wars, or to license to an interesting party. The only real application I see if this is used in near future is if MS tries to implement a system to show movies the same time they're in the cinema, as it's the cinema that charges on a per person basis and that's where studios make their money during the theater run.lamprey263

It's pernicious and rather draconian; doesn't seem like a lot of money but it will add up. The enforcement is what scares me, will you be penalized somehow if you point your camera at a wall, or try to hide extra people? I'm sure it will use the voice recognition to detect extra people. Big brother isn't being forced on us, we're inviting him in...