Microsoft Releases DRM Re-licencing Tool For 360 Re-owners
Nearly everyone I know that owns a 360 has had to, at one point or another, replace their Xbox 360 with a new system. Mine stopped displaying video. Fruit Brute received a weird two red light message that no one knew what it meant. Tiny got the red ring of death. The list really just keeps going. I don't really hold it against Microsoft, I love the system despite it's stability issues. Unfortunately, when you replace a 360 all your downloaded content becomes restricted thanks to the DRM locking the content down to one machine.
Thankfully, Microsoft released a DRM relinking tool. This online page allows you to associate all your orphaned software and videos to your new machine free of charge. There are a couple of hangups however. First, you can only use this tool once every 12-months, presumably to stop people from bulk copying their software to their friends. Secondly, you have to re-download all your relinked software. If you've replaced your Xbox recently, just head over to their homepage and use the license migration tool. The entire process takes place on a platform unspecific web page, and takes less than 10 minutes to finish. You must have access to your Xbox to complete the process.
Xbox 360 DRM License Migration Tool
This allows me to go back to being the Xbox 360 profile overlord. No you can't log me in, play Puzzle Fighter with your own gamer tag!
Content License Transfer Tool (aka the DRM Tool) now available [Major Nelson]
Asterick
Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games, Videos on 27 June 2008
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Um, I just send back my Xbox 360 for what I presume is the RRoD thing (I got 3 of those green lights light up red instead) and when I got it back all my stuff was still readily available.
Of course I had removed my hard drive before they came to pick it up (as per their instruction), so that might be why.
Nexus,
If you sent in your box to Microsoft, they did the license transfer for you.
This is for the people who bought new ones or did trades at the point of sale.
The license is to the Xbox console not the Hard Drive.
Hope that helps.
Mark
Nexus,
If you sent in your box to Microsoft, they did the license transfer for you.
This is for the people who bought new ones or did trades at the point of sale.
The license is to the Xbox console not the Hard Drive.
Hope that helps.
Mark