[lowbridge]

Solution: fill your living room with mannequins, then sue when Microsoft stops playing your movie halfway through.

[null and void]

‘Smith!’ screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen. ‘6079 Smith W.! Yes, you! Bend lower, please! You can do better than that. You’re not trying. Lower, please! That’s better, comrade. Now stand at ease, the whole squad, and watch me.’

[Fresh Wind]

[Leroy S. Mort]

Simple solution: disconnect your Kinect camera. You don’t need it to watch movies.

[Alaska Wolf]

Microsoft wants to know how many friends you've got in your living room

Do my wife and dogs count?

[Dallas59]

3,562.

[Regulator]

thanks for posting. was thinking of setting up the Kinect as a media server.

Not now.

[bunkerhill7]

So simple- use large one-way mirror

[publius911]

What's a Kinect Camera, and why can't I just use black tape over the lens, or disable it?

Isn't that illegal search and invasion of privacy?

[zeugma]

But that’s what’s interesting about this application and patent applications in general: they often reveal what companies would do if they could get away with it.

Yup. Worth repeating.