@knb1503 I agree that could be a problem as well. It's not impossible for someone to hack your cellphone and use your camera without you knowing.

Question is: you also want your game console to have that same risk?

Worse: you want your console to have no option out of this, since the use of the camera is mandatory? If you could at least use all the features with a controller and just throw that Kinect away...

@knb1503 Is it mandatory to use?

@knb1503 Guess you didn't read the part that says that the camera needs to actually *see* you in order for the console to work (to navigate through it's OS at least). Also, that wouldn't stop it from hearing you, though you could put a tape over the microfone as well... then the box wouldn't be able to take any voice commands as well.

Really clever solution buddy.

@GSGuy321 Addressing piracy is one thing, making a fee for used games is another. If you bought the game, it's legit, and already activated, why would they have any right in knowing which gamer is using that particular copy? It's legitimate! What they seem to intend to do is make a profit on the secondhand market, it's not only combating piracy...

@deathstream @maddydoggy So there is nothing on a game that gets old?

Like the graphics? They are always on par with what's on the market?

@deathstream @ahhnold72 @TraXxX Deathstream, are you getting paid to make used games seem like a problem?

Piracy is a problem.

Used games are like any other used product. If companies can't survive because of used products, there is an elementary problem with the industry itself, but crippling people of their rights is not the solution to big companies financial problems.

@thalt992000 @fredyellowone No friend, what kills publishers is piracy.

@AngelsongCA It is yours anyway. You can lend or sell it if you want.

But anyway, if the way things are already isn't perfect, why would we want it to get worse?

@Shelledfade1 @SambaLele The electricity, water, etc are all consumable products.

The water you drank or used to shower is not the same one you're using later.

You pay for a constant flow of a consumable. Like food.

You pay everytime you eat because it's a new product everytime.

It's not a durable product. You don't pay a fee to lend your car to someone.

Ha. I can imagine a talk I would have with my grandsons in the far future, if this kind of business practice becomes the norm:

"Hey kids, let me tell you a brief history.

You know kids, there was a time when we had something we called 'property'.

Well, it was basically that you bought stuff and it was yours, until you sold it to someone else.

No one could tell you what to do with your property, and once it was yours, it was you who could charge other people to use it, if you wanted to!

Have you ever heard of Ebay? Wow, no, calm down, it's not a mafia, a crime organization or anything, it was legal at the time.

It's still the same thing, only that now they have to operate on the black market.

Yes, that's how different things were back then.

Well... then came that fatidic day, when Microsoft announced the Xbox One.

It brought to the physical media some practices that were already common in the digital media.

But that made all the difference.

If you wanted to trade or lend the games you 'owned', there were rules you had to obey.

Some people were against it, but the majority waited in lines to buy it.

I guess people didn't know Microsoft's plans at the time.

And so it worked out.

Then other companies, in other market sectors wanted to do the same.

And they succeeded.

Not only did you have to register your used car in your name when you bought it, but you also paid a fee to the manufacturers.

If anyone wanted to drive your car, you had to pay another fee, just for that, or you could be fined by a cop while driving, your car could even be seized if you weren't in the car along with the non-registered driver.

And so it happened in many other areas.

Then came the 'Property License Act'.

And licensing 'property' became the new norm.

It was yours... as long as your license was still valid.

And from time to time you had to pay for it again.

Then actual property became something only big companies and the government could have.

And that's how now we're here, enjoying this fine meal in our holiday, in this licensed house, license which is due tomorrow, but don't worry, I've got enough money to renew it for another week. Cheers everyone!"