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Right, and this is the market rejecting these terms.

The current standard terms of consumption for console games includes the ability to give your copy to someone else. There is neither a legal nor social contract that these games be paid for per-consumption.

What we saw is Microsoft trying to change that. The market has responded clearly and unambiguously.

So no one (short of the pirates) has violated any terms, legal or social.



It's the market threatening to reject these terms. That's different from actual rejection.

What we have is a vocal minority responding clearly and unambiguously. The size of such a group, minority or otherwise, will not ever be known, since Microsoft has not sold anything to anyone yet.




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