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    Default Microsoft Patents In-Home Consumer Monitoring System

    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.

    http://www.escapistm...nitoring-System
    Source: http://appft.uspto.g...=DN/20120278904

    Don't like where this is going.

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    Default Re: Microsoft Patents In-Home Consumer Monitoring System

    Good reason not to buy hardware from Microsoft.

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    Default Re: Microsoft Patents In-Home Consumer Monitoring System

    Quote Originally Posted by realneil View Post
    Good reason not to buy hardware from Microsoft.
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    Default Re: Microsoft Patents In-Home Consumer Monitoring System

    Yeah, because this will be approved. Any media you own you can rebroadcast to a limited circle. So you cannot build a cinema, but you can show it to fifty people in a private venue.

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