Microsoft's New Patent Is Pure, Privacy-Invading Evil

Here's a new, innovative Kinect patent. It uses the Kinect cameras to count how many users watching the television, and can take “remedial action” if there are more people watching than the number of licenses you paid for. Seriously! Conceivably, if you rented Avatar through a Microsoft content store, and it noticed that your whole family was watching, it could ask you to cough up more money. Microsoft just patented that process. Direct quote from the patent abstract: 

Content is distributed an associated license option on the number of individual consumers or viewers allowed to consume the content.


Ubergizmo , Microsoft's New Patent Is Pure, Privacy-Invading Evil, Microsoft's New Patent Is Pure, Privacy-Invading Evil