• AProfessional@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    From the article

    The problem seems to revolve around brands that haven’t acquired this licensing

    It seems to just be rent seeking? Since it’s retroactive there probably isn’t a security change and malicious hardware can spoof being licensed, though this is unclear. So it probably only hurts legitimate small brands.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah its probably rent seeking, I was just pointing out there are legit reasons to ban certain hardware.

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        1 year ago

        I get your argument, but I’d say it makes room for a legit reason to control and identify hardware, not ban it.

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          absolutely, hence why I put forward the idea of an API that would allow games to stop people from joining multiplayer matches or flag their highscores if sketchy hardware is involved! For Single Player games, who cares!

          But deep down we all know that this first and formost is a money grabbing scheme from micro$oft