top | item 21334424 (no title) naner | 6 years ago The only use for cracking Xbox One would be to enable piracyThat's not strictly true, cracking could also allow alternative os loading. discuss order hn newest qplex|6 years ago As far as I know the Xbox One needs to dial home before you're allowed to run a game.So when the DRM servers are shut down, these devices will become just useless paperweights (if nobody manages to crack them). terramex|6 years ago Xbox One connects to MS server only once, on initial setup and then it can run disc games offline. Not sure about digital downloads. load replies (2) _ea1k|6 years ago That is a good point... I bet there is nothing else as powerful at the price point either. It would make an excellent Linux media server. wlesieutre|6 years ago Sony advertised this as a feature of the PS3 called "OtherOS" and then got sued when they turned around and removed it with a software update.Settlement was supposedly $65 but it looks like affected people got a whole $10 for their trouble: https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/9izcpm/has_anyone_rece...There were some clusters made out of PS3s, presumably the operators kept these from updating, but they wouldn't be able to replace failed units with new ones anymore: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/05/how-removing-ps3-linu... load replies (1)
qplex|6 years ago As far as I know the Xbox One needs to dial home before you're allowed to run a game.So when the DRM servers are shut down, these devices will become just useless paperweights (if nobody manages to crack them). terramex|6 years ago Xbox One connects to MS server only once, on initial setup and then it can run disc games offline. Not sure about digital downloads. load replies (2)
terramex|6 years ago Xbox One connects to MS server only once, on initial setup and then it can run disc games offline. Not sure about digital downloads. load replies (2)
_ea1k|6 years ago That is a good point... I bet there is nothing else as powerful at the price point either. It would make an excellent Linux media server. wlesieutre|6 years ago Sony advertised this as a feature of the PS3 called "OtherOS" and then got sued when they turned around and removed it with a software update.Settlement was supposedly $65 but it looks like affected people got a whole $10 for their trouble: https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/9izcpm/has_anyone_rece...There were some clusters made out of PS3s, presumably the operators kept these from updating, but they wouldn't be able to replace failed units with new ones anymore: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/05/how-removing-ps3-linu... load replies (1)
wlesieutre|6 years ago Sony advertised this as a feature of the PS3 called "OtherOS" and then got sued when they turned around and removed it with a software update.Settlement was supposedly $65 but it looks like affected people got a whole $10 for their trouble: https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/9izcpm/has_anyone_rece...There were some clusters made out of PS3s, presumably the operators kept these from updating, but they wouldn't be able to replace failed units with new ones anymore: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/05/how-removing-ps3-linu... load replies (1)
qplex|6 years ago
So when the DRM servers are shut down, these devices will become just useless paperweights (if nobody manages to crack them).
terramex|6 years ago
_ea1k|6 years ago
wlesieutre|6 years ago
Settlement was supposedly $65 but it looks like affected people got a whole $10 for their trouble: https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/9izcpm/has_anyone_rece...
There were some clusters made out of PS3s, presumably the operators kept these from updating, but they wouldn't be able to replace failed units with new ones anymore: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/05/how-removing-ps3-linu...