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The XBOX is a proprietary system, if you take the discs away then you have even less control, as the contents of the 1TB drive can be taken away from you, the discs cant, only your ability to access discs can be interferred with.

This sort of model is why i just use steam and GOG games. I get to keep the game and run/tinker it on my desktop

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I agree completely. Why they just take everything away so that I don't actually own anything. Just give me a little set top box where the game gets streamed to me and I don't even own the disk my current game is saved on. Oh, wait... yea google and apple are reviving that model as we speak.

Yes, I think GOG is going to be a favorite of more and more people until they just can't make it in the powerless consumer economy.

It will be sometime before the consolidation of computing power becomes distributed again. We always go through cycles. We'll just have to wade this one out.

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