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Comment Re:Excited about it but there are still problems (Score 1) 303

You are onto something that I think is important -- you can use Natal with a regular controller in your hand. See, a game built from the ground up to exclusively use gestures is one thing, and it could be very cool. But I can imagine uses for Natal in every other game that I currently play with a regular controller. Imagine fighting real-time in a dungeon crawler with your standard 360 controller, and being able to use your voice or quick gestures to cast spells or issue commands to the rest of your AI party? Voice controls could be huge in a lot of games. And I already make one-handed gestures to opponents in various games -- now, they can really mean something! So, don't think of this as a one trick pony. Consider other possibilities...

Comment Re:Seems to me like people in Europe enjoy more fr (Score 2, Insightful) 674

Yeah, that's a little deceptive. When is the last time a song was banned in the US? If you are an adult, have you ever had trouble purchasing a violent video game in the US? If you are a member of an extremist group (non-violent, at least), do you need to hide that in the US? Can you buy military style weapons in the US? You may not agree with some of the freedoms we have in the US, but they remain available.

I could come up with a list of things that are more accessible and free in the EU. It's give and take. Each area has advantages when it comes to freedom. I don't think you can make a blanket statement that one area enjoys more freedoms than the other without qualifying which freedoms are most important to you.

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Puretracks Music Store Drops DRM 236

khendron writes "The Canadian online music store Puretracks (a store I have generally avoided because of their Microsoft-specific solutions) has announced that it will immediately start selling part of its catalog as DRM-free MP3 files. The site's unprotected catalog, which includes artists such as The Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLachlan, will initially feature only 50,000 of its 1.3 million tracks, but their number will grow weekly. The Globe and Mail says the move will likely profit Puretracks because its DRM-free-music will be playable on iPods. It quotes one industry watcher saying 'We're seeing the death of DRM.'" Essentially Puretracks is relaxing the major-label mandated DRM rules that it had initially applied to all labels, even the indies that wanted no part of DRM.

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