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granty

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« on: October 20, 2005, 11:01:00 AM »
Just a thought but if keeping lots of music on your xbox 360 or movies, or anything that could be deemed illegal it would be perfectly possible for xbox live to read your xbox HDD for say the MIAA and if it looks suspicious then investigate further. I don't think MS would accomplish from this because popularity would go down, but just think of your privacy, how private is it? Also on a side note Sony may take this approach with being involved in the music and video industry.
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Statecowboy

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« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2005, 11:15:00 AM »
QUOTE(granty @ Oct 20 2005, 12:36 PM)
Just a thought but if keeping lots of music on your xbox 360 or movies, or anything that could be deemed illegal it would be perfectly possible for xbox live to read your xbox HDD for say the MIAA and if it looks suspicious then investigate further. I don't think MS would accomplish from this because popularity would go down, but just think of your privacy, how private is it? Also on a side note Sony may take this approach with being involved in the music and video industry.
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It's not illegal to make digital backups of things you own.  So, just don't have anything that shouldn't be on there (i.e. pirated software, music, movies etc.) and you won't have anything to worry about.  Problem solved.
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granty

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« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2005, 03:29:00 PM »
Yeah thats a simple soultion but many will have gigs worth of music downloaded, its useful to stream and such but who has 20 gigs of music legally? Thats why I said they could investigate it incase it is legal, it still isn't private and safe like you would like.
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twistedsymphony

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« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2005, 09:27:00 PM »
if you're worried about your privacy then maybe you should pay more attension to the privacy statment you agree to when signing up for XBL
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granty

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« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2005, 10:43:00 AM »
I not worried, I dont even wanna do ote illegal with it. I just thought i'd warn a few people who actually havnt thought about it.
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« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2005, 03:03:00 PM »
QUOTE(Statecowboy @ Oct 20 2005, 06:50 PM)
It's not illegal to make digital backups of things you own.  So, just don't have anything that shouldn't be on there (i.e. pirated software, music, movies etc.) and you won't have anything to worry about.  Problem solved.
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I'm not so sure on this statement, considering the DMCA says its illegal to circumvent copyright encryption, like on DVDs, regardless of if you own the DVD or not.

Being able to place DVDs on the hard drive alone would put MS in a spot legally with just about any movie studio, considering itÂ’s also illegal to distribute anything that allows you to circumvent that encryption, including hardware. Exactly the same reason (I'm assuming) that most of the places you can order mod-chips are not in the US.

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