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Big Brother alert: Microsoft wants to know how many friends you've got in your living room
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[quote:Laura Bow:MV8yMDQ2ODg3XzM0MzkyNjI3XzI5MzBCNUND] [quote:Anonymous Coward 26860799:MV8yMDQ2ODg3XzM0MzkyMjgzX0QzQkIzMTgz] lmao is this for fucking real? I hope those lampposts are strong, because they'll have a lot of work to do when the balloon goes up! [/quote] Is it real? I'm guessing so and it wouldn't surprise me. [/quote]
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One of Microsoft’s latest patent applications is a humdinger. It proposes to turn the Kinect camera into a snitch for movie studios, reporting back just how many friends you’ve got in your living room and what they’re watching. Think that sounds alarmist? Here’s what it actually says:
“The users consuming the content on a display device are monitored so that if the number of user-views licensed is exceeded, remedial action may be taken.”
It’s that blatant – a system to spy on private viewing habits.
If put into practice, Microsoft’s plan could mean that the film you’re watching suddenly stops playing if it detects that you’ve got more people squashed on to the sofa than the licence allows. You’d then be prompted to buy a more expensive licence to keep watching. It’s as if Big Brother had built 1984’s Telescreen not to monitor the population but to ensure no one was pirating the Two Minutes Hate.
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