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Major Nelson brings word that the promised tool to enable Xbox 360 owners to move media between consoles they own is now live.
“The team is happy to announce that the Content License Transfer Tool (also know as the DRM Tool) is now available on Xbox.com,” said the exec on his blog. “It’s an easy process that has two parts: Transfer your licenses on Xbox.com, then download them manually on your console.”
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mortiferus said:
Wow, typical MS at work here, WTF! I have to login through the web to do this? LAME! Why can they just build this into the account management blade? See this is why MS will never beat Apple and to a lesser extent Sony in EASE OF USE!
Why cant they have a “De-Autorize/Authorize content on this console” ala iTunes on PC or Mac?
Heck, if they are that concerned about RROD (Which they clearly are by the neutrality of the tool), at least make it a one step process via the web. EASE OF USE MS, Learn it!
Dean said:
What a pain in the ass. You have to trawl through all your downloads trying to remember which ones you grabbed before your machine imploded on itself. Mortiferus is spot on.. should be able to do this from the console itself. And to go further, it should *automatically* download the licenses that need updating for the new (non-RROD’d) console.
Still, better than what was available before. That is, nothing.
mortiferus said:
Dean I agree, it should be smart enough to at least ask about queuing up the downloads, i.e. would you like to download all downloads excluding Xbox Originals and game patches? Obviously you dont want to DL everything at once but at least give us some options.
Psychotext said:
On the bright side… this should be a one off deal because if MS replace your console now this is handled automatically by redownloading your content.
SticKboy said:
Hang on – is this process Windows only, or would it work on a Mac?
patlike said:
Me no know. I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if Mac support was an “oversight”.