Xbox LIVE Arcade – a Digital Rights Management Disaster

Xbox LIVE Arcade’s fairly extreme digital rights management (DRM) measures are in place to prevent all kinds of unauthorised content sharing, but when you’re selling hardware as unreliable as the Xbox 360, the process to set yourself up on a new machine, and have the same access to your previously-purchased content has to be simple, quick and fair. At the moment, none of these can be said of XBLA.