<div dir="ltr"><div>Your *nix system CAN most certainly play an xbox game. In this day and age you have every right to play your xbox games on linux, and linux games on your win8 box and windoze games on your mac, etc etc ad infinitum. </div>
<div> </div><div>Ref: <a href="https://www.google.co.in/#safe=off&q=how+to+play+xbox+games+on+linux&oq=how+to+play+xbox+games+on+linux">https://www.google.co.in/#safe=off&q=how+to+play+xbox+games+on+linux&oq=how+to+play+xbox+games+on+linux</a> </div>
<div> </div><div>So suppose they prevented you from playing it, would that be acceptable? (Ok the fact that you assumed it cannot be played means you've accepted it ^_^ but apart from that).</div><div> </div><div>Specifically wrt the publishers, see content is always difficult to regulate on a PC as against on a TV or such a relatively less versatile piece of consumer equipment, so they'll limit it using means that they know. Yes it's not perfect, but that doesnt justify DRM. </div>
<div> </div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Chaitanya</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Roland Perry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roland@internetpolicyagency.com" target="_blank">roland@internetpolicyagency.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In message <<a href="mailto:CAEP5zKQFz12fW4q9Sm61uiyULv0cbPkEnZj76-cJJfuEs_ki9g@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">CAEP5zKQFz12fW4q9Sm61uiyULv0c<u></u>bPkEnZj76-cJJfuEs_ki9g@mail.<u></u>gmail.com</a>>, at 08:49:44 on Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Chaitanya Dhareshwar <<a href="mailto:chaitanyabd@gmail.com" target="_blank">chaitanyabd@gmail.com</a>> writes<div class="im">
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In the context of Disney movies - assuming "purchased" and not "pirated" - wouldnt the purchaser already be exposing their identity for the purchase validation process?<br>
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The most recent Disney movie I purchased was paid for with cash at my local gas station.<br>
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It seems to me that there's a mistaken concept of "freedom to listen" (by all and any available means) in addition to the well accepted concept of "freedom of speech".<br>
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Is it an infringement of my human rights if I have to buy an X-box to run a particular X-box game, because my open source *nix PC won't play the game?<br>
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These days, with smart-TVs and browsers built into DVD players, are they going to be able to play DRM'd html content, or will the suppliers have another version in order to preserve their market amongst people who want to watch their movies on a TV, rather than a PC?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Roland Perry<br>
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