June 26, 2008DRM Transfer Tool Launches!
Posted by The Ori
From the Xbox PR Blog:
We have all eagerly been awaiting the DRM tool that will allow you to transfer licenses from one console to another and guess what? Today, it has finally arrived!
I’m posting some of the key information that you need to know regarding this tool. To find out more, please go to http://www.xbox.com/drm
Key Points:
* The DRM tool allows you to transfer licenses from one console to another. For instance, if you bought a console a year ago and downloaded a bunch of content but then bought a new console this year and downloaded more content, you couldn’t play all of the content on both 360s without being signed into LIVE. With this tool, you can consolidate all of the downloaded content licenses to your preferred console. This way, you don’t have to be signed into LIVE to play.
* The process takes less than a minute. There is no content being transferred, only licenses.
* This process will work on any console so if you had to trade an Xbox 360 at a local retailer, you can still use the tool to migrate your information. However, you can only do this once every year (365 Days). If you send the console to Microsoft to be repaired, they will automatically update all of your licenses. For more information on console repair, visit: http://www.xbox.com/support.
* If you bought a larger hard drive and are re-downloading your licensed content for the same console, then you should not need the DRM tool. However, if you used the Migration cable to transfer your content from an older console to a newer one, you will need to use the tool to update the licenses. Again, you can only do this once a year.
* You will still be able to play all of the games you own on all of your consoles as long as you’re signed-in to LIVE. The console you transferred your licenses to will be the one that you can use without having to be signed-in.
* The tool will work with all content except movies. Movies are not “download-to-own” so the licenses are not transferrable.
I hope this helped answer some of those questions you had about the tool.
Again, to find out more about it, check the xbox.com page at http://www.xbox.com/drm.
soo this means…those who got banned in live..can play now?
For a moment, on seeing the post, I thought the same. But no, his is just the licence for the downloaded content, not key live. Just means if ya buy a new console then if say you had content on a now banned console, you can transfer it to a shiny new non-banned console.
Oh I love it! I’m so glad they finally did this. I’ve had DRM problems for over a year, and they’re finally fixed! Beautiful…
So did it work? Success?
Oh yea! I got all my Rock Band, Guitar Hero 2 and 3 songs back, along with my 87 Live Arcade games! And my multiplayer maps…Seriously, I’ve been waiting for this…
Well that’s great to hear.
my console have been bann can i use DRM transfer tool to get back to normal so i can get onlive?
Isn’t it that you can move your Drm stuff from the banned one to one that isn’t banned?
Not precisely, but it should work. The GamerTAG & Account are not banned, only the CONSOLE (however, they are flagged). This was done for people who get new consoles by returns, or buying upgrades to the Elite or the 60GB model coming out.
Well in any case, it’s good to see that the long standing issue of the DRM’d content problem appears to have a solution. At least for people that suffered broken consoles.
There still remains the problem of the consoles overheating but they’ve been addressing that for a while. Last check wasn’t it that even the Elite consoles with the 65nm manufacturing tech still overheated to the point of burning out?
Maybe when they move the processors to a 45nm tech processing design they’ll reach the point at which they don’t overheat.