{"id":701,"date":"2008-06-30T11:12:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T10:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/701-microsoft-fixes-xbox-360-license-transfer.html"},"modified":"2008-06-30T11:12:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T10:12:18","slug":"microsoft-fixes-xbox-360-license-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/701-microsoft-fixes-xbox-360-license-transfer.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft fixes Xbox 360 license transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has finally fixed a long-standing irritation with the Xbox 360: the inability to transfer licenses for purchased games from one console to another. The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/support\/systemuse\/xbox360\/licensemigration\/faq.htm\">license transfer tool<\/a> lets you consolidate all your download purchases to a specific Xbox 360, even if some were downloaded onto a console that no longer works or was sold on.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m personally grateful as I ran into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/554-xbox-360-nearly-great.html\">exactly this problem<\/a> and had an argument with support about it.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a wider point here. If I buy virtual property, like software, music or an ebook, it makes sense to record that ownership in the cloud so that there is no need to keep backups and it cannot really be stolen (other than by hacking the online account, I guess). <\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:bc0736f8-8825-46c2-b552-dcc0d2821f08\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/xbox+360\" rel=\"tag\">xbox 360<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/drm\" rel=\"tag\">drm<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has finally fixed a long-standing irritation with the Xbox 360: the inability to transfer licenses for purchased games from one console to another. The new license transfer tool lets you consolidate all your download purchases to a specific Xbox 360, even if some were downloaded onto a console that no longer works or was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/701-microsoft-fixes-xbox-360-license-transfer.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft fixes Xbox 360 license transfer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,35,55,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-apple","category-gaming","category-microsoft","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}