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Xbox says it has "record-breaking interest in our I.P." and points to upcoming Minecraft and Diablo animated series with Netflix. Gears of War, The Elder Scrolls and Sea of Thieves are reportedly being pitched.
A commenter who works through deal terms said the headline number says almost nothing.
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An essay argues physical media is the only copy that 'remains under the buyer's control' — citing Sony pulling purchased films, Disney+ erasing 50+ titles, and 87% of pre-2010 games now unavailable.
The thread's killer detail is smaller: a paid Kindle novel silently turned into its German translation on redownload. The contrarians don't disagree about ownership — they just point past it. The only copy nobody can revoke or rewrite, several conclude, is the pirated one.
A federal law quieted loud broadcast-TV ads back in 2012, but it never touched streaming — so streaming ads stayed loud. California's new law extends the same standard to streamers on July 1.
Industry groups argued that server-side ad insertion and a 'broad range of devices' make consistent loudness hard. The thread's top reply took that apart: loudness is a measured, solved problem at the source. 'Stop trying and fix it. It's your own damn system.'
