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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 04:34 AM EDT |
| No games for me :-) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 10:44 AM EDT |
As if they didn't already have enough worries there. It would seem to fail the
Goods and Services laws for starters and the coming policy direction of what you
pay to download is yours. Repeat offender here and could be heavily fined. Apple
had to back away from such differential marketing policies and did so quickly
when they saw the initial fine on MS. That outfit seems not to have learned by
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 04:12 PM EDT |
It depends on how your ISP is set up. If an ISP only operates in country 'x',
and your IP address is allocated to that ISP, Microsoft can be pretty confident
in assuming what country you are in. If however an ISP operates in multiple
countries, and their IP addresses are shuffled about between different networks,
or if their own network crosses borders, then it's harder to tell.
The bigger issue is going to be for people who go on vacation somewhere and take
their game console with them, and find out that it doesn't work at the cottage
they rented for a month. Their kids might actually have to go outdoors and
undertake some physical activity to relieve their boredom. That could be quite a
shock for some of them.
The solution of course is to use a proxy server. There are lots of those who are
in business specifically to allow people to get around geo-location locks. You
generally have to pay for that though.
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