DRM Transfer Tool Launches! Options

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DRM Transfer Tool Launches! Posted by XanTium | June 26 16:50 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From the Xbox PR Blog: [QUOTE] 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. [/QUOTE]

[shleeb]

However, you can only do this once every year (365 Days).

lol, the drm tool, has..drm

[beowulfx]

If http://www.xbox.com/drm doesnt work, try http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/systemus...censemigration/

[mace1337]

Excellent tool!

Works a charm, now I won't have to sign in to my live account just to play a little doom or something.

[Dark Seraph]

They should make it able to be used once every 6 months(half a year), You never know what Can happen.

[Mike4]

I'm sorry if this is going to be a stupid question, but if I have a Live arcade game downloaded to my HDD, I can't just move that HDD to another 360 and play it?

I recently revived my dead 360, but only after I had already purchased a replacement. I now have two working systems and though I never tried, I had just assumed I could share the one HDD between the two consoles. It seems unfair that I can't. So now they're "allowing" me to consolidate everything to one console, but I can only do this once a year? Thanks for the restrictions, Microsoft.

I already noticed that if I want to sign in to my gamertag on either console, I'm required to go through some ridiculously long recovery process each and every time I switch to one or the other. I must say that's really annoying. I'm not sure what people typically do when they have two consoles, but this can't be it. Maybe they have two gamertags. I admit that I haven't tried moving the HDD to the other console, though. Maybe signing in when I have the HDD attached allows me to skip the recovery process?

Anyway, this news just makes me wish I could change the serial number on one of them so that they could be clones. I guess I should consider myself lucky that I don't have to buy a disc-based game twice if I want to play it in both consoles.

[shocwave]

You can only have your live profile on 1 storage device.
If you want to use it on 2 different Xbox, and use 2 different hard drives, you will need to buy a memory card, and put your live profile on it. Then you can take the memory card to either console when you want to log in. No recovery needed.

I bought a Arcade system which came with the memory card, so I had some time to play around.
Everytime I go to a friend's, I take my memory card with me so I can sign in with my own account.

If you only need to use 1 hard drive for both consoles, simply store the live account on the hard drive.
When you move the hard drive over to the other console, all you need to do is sign in, and you'll have access to everything.

This post has been edited by shocwave: Jun 27 2008, 12:03 AM

[Kazimieras]

I'm sorry if this is going to be a stupid question, but if I have a Live arcade game downloaded to my HDD, I can't just move that HDD to another 360 and play it?

I recently revived my dead 360, but only after I had already purchased a replacement. I now have two working systems and though I never tried, I had just assumed I could share the one HDD between the two consoles. It seems unfair that I can't. So now they're "allowing" me to consolidate everything to one console, but I can only do this once a year? Thanks for the restrictions, Microsoft.

I already noticed that if I want to sign in to my gamertag on either console, I'm required to go through some ridiculously long recovery process each and every time I switch to one or the other. I must say that's really annoying. I'm not sure what people typically do when they have two consoles, but this can't be it. Maybe they have two gamertags. I admit that I haven't tried moving the HDD to the other console, though. Maybe signing in when I have the HDD attached allows me to skip the recovery process?

Anyway, this news just makes me wish I could change the serial number on one of them so that they could be clones. I guess I should consider myself lucky that I don't have to buy a disc-based game twice if I want to play it in both consoles.

You can move it, but if you are not connected to LIVE, the game will only run in trial mode.

The restrictions suck (and wait till it comes out that they modify your download history... but that's another story), but it is a big improvement. I waited 6 months for license transfer, so this is great.

Get a memory card, one of the 64MB ones will do, it will save a lot of time if you have more than one console.

[linkinworm]

WOO finaly i had like 67 games i couldnt play because of this crap. altho i wish MS made it a little easier, i had over 600 pieces of game content to download in 30 mins for one acount and 60 for another account, my thumbs hurt

[trey85stang]

its about time they did something that actually benefits the end user's. Now I can fianlly get all my content working again... only took them what.. 3 years?

[tabsaid]

finally, works as advertised. I think its 30 minutes to sign on live, not download all your licenses over. They get reassigned on the live servers as soon as you sign onto live with the console ID.

[teagster]

I have one console that is banned and one that is good. If I use this tool ,will I be able to play my games on the banned console that I can not get on live with ? And will I also be able to play them on the good one? Any info appreciated , thanks.

[sabbath_dude]

Finally!. It's still not a proper solution though since you can only transfer licenses once every 365 days and can only have content registered to one console at a time but at least its something. IMO it shouldn't be once every 12 months, maybe more like once a month and allow content to be registered to 2-3 consoles at one time. At least now I can upgrade to an Elite and take all my arcade games, themes, gamerpics, content etc with me .

[nyne7lac]

FINALLY!!!!

[scuba156]

great news

This post has been edited by scuba156: Jun 27 2008, 03:41 AM