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The latest rumors suggests Microsoft may soon announce a brand new version of the Xbox One that comes without a Blu-ray drive.

The all digital video game console will only be able to play digitally downloaded games, but without a Blu-ray drive that currently occupies as much as a third of the space in the existing Xbox One console, the new console, dubbed the Xbox One Mini, will be much smaller in size.

The removal of the Blu-ray drive, along with successful efforts by AMD to shrink the console's APU from 28nm to a cheaper and more power efficient 20nm process, will also make the Xbox One Mini much cheaper, yet still capable of playing all Xbox One games.

The new console, if the rumors prove to be true, will also retain Xbox 360 backwards compatibility for digital games.

According to the rumor, the new Xbox One, along with new Surface Pro and Lumia devices, will be unveiled at a Microsoft hardware event in October.

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With some in the music industry growing increasingly annoyed at Spotify's free listening plan, blaming it for decreased earnings, Spotify warns that its free plan is the only thing helping to keep piracy down.

Artists includes Taylor Swift, Thom Yorke, Beck, Pink Floyd and Neil Young have all expressed concern about how Spotify pays artists, with Swift eventually taking the drastic step of removing all of her songs from Spotify's library. However, according to Sachin Dosh, Spotify’s Vice President of content and distribution, the freemium model is an essential tool to keep piracy at bay, and helps artists monetize fans that otherwise may not have been paying to listen anyway.

"We've done such a great job at Spotify of making piracy irrelevant, but that doesn’t mean it’s gone. It just means there’s no need for it right now," Dosh told MBW. "You could create that need again if you follow the wrong path," he warned.

As for the issues with revenue, it's all about enticing users to want to pay for Spotify's premium plan, by making them better.

"…I think the industry does actually agree with a lot of this: instead of making free worse, the right answer is making premium better," says Dosh.

Dosh then goes on to explain that this will not necessarily lead to exclusive content for premium subscribers, but hinted at "other features" that leads to "creating a better experience" for users.

Meanwhile, Spotify took to their official blog to address the recent controversy regarding the service's updated user agreements, which has spooked users worried about the potential privacy invading changes.

The new privacy policy gives Spotify the right to access the user's photos, location, microphone and contacts, and also grants limited sharing of user information with advertisers. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took to the official Spotify blog to clarify what these new changes actually mean, and to apologise for not properly "communicating what these policies mean".

The results and analysis for Blu-ray (and DVD) sales for the week ending 15th August 2015 is in. It's another poor set of results for Blu-ray, as once again, the quantity and quality of new releases were less than desired. Out of the new releases, Hot Pursuit was the best selling.

You can read the rest of the stats and analysis here

Two independent surveys shows that while the popularity of SVOD services such as Netflix has changed the way consumers watch content, many still prefer to buy, rent their movies and TV shows, and many still exclusively rely on packaged media.

A survey by Nielsen found that 73% of American consumers still buy or rent movies and TV shows. Out of these consumers, 61% went for packaged media (including Blu-ray and DVD), while 53% has bought or rented a digital file, and 41% said they consumed both types of content. This means that 20% (61% minus 41%) used packaged media exclusively.

For SVOD, it now accounts for 10% of weekly viewing hours for consumers (compared to 34% for broadcast TV, 12% for video games and 7% for packaged media). Consumers also said that SVOD has changed their buying habits, with 3% saying they buy less TV shows on discs as a result, and are going to the movies less.

A separate study from Futuresource Consulting has found that 50% of survey respondents still buy discs, and the proportion of disc buyers in the US and UK are actually up compared to the last survey.

The data shows that 20% of all digital consumers still buy discs, with those in the US more likely to buy them than compared to consumers in Canada, Australia, Germany, the UK and France.

Interestingly, the data shows that DVD buyers are increasingly female, those most likely to have children under 12 at home. Consumers that are more willing to adopt new tech actually tend to prefer packaged media over digital services.

Windows 10 will prevent games with old DRM from being played, while several top torrent trackers have started to ban users who use Windows 10.

Games that use older version of SafeDisc and SecuROM will not work in Windows 10, according to Microsoft’s Boris Schneider-Johne. Speaking in a videointerview with Rocket Bean TV (and translated via Rock, Paper, Shotgun), Schneider-Johne pointed out that Windows 10's security policy prevents these potentially insecure apps from running.

"Everything that ran in Windows 7 should also run in Windows 10. There are just two silly exceptions: antivirus software and stuff that’s deeply embedded into the system," Schneider-Johne said, according to the translation provided by RPS.

"And then there are old games on CD-Rom that have DRM. This DRM stuff is also deeply embedded in your system, and that’s where Windows 10 says 'sorry, we cannot allow that, because that would be a possible loophole for computer viruses.'

"That’s why there are a couple of games from 2003-2008 with Securom, etc. that simply don’t run without a no-CD patch or some such. We can just not support that if it’s a possible danger for our users. There are a couple of patches from developers already, and there is stuff like GOG where you’ll find versions of those games that work."

Meanwhile, the privacy issues related to Windows 10 have forced several top torrent trackers to block users using Windows 10.

The biggest concern appears to be Windows 10's willingness to send private user information to an anti-piracy company called MarkMonitor. According to one tracker iTS, Microsoft has been sending "contents of your local disks directly to one of their servers".

This has forced iTS to ban its users from using Windows 10, and users with the OS will be redirected to a video explaining why the ban is in place.

Another tracker, BB, is also following suit.

"We have also found [Windows 10] will be gathering information on users’ P2P use to be shared with anti piracy group," staff from BB informed users.

"What’s particularly nasty is that apparently it sends the results of local(!!) searches to a well known anti piracy company directly so as soon as you have one known p2p or scene release on your local disk … BAM!"

But according to analysis by TorrentFreak, these privacy concerns may be overstated. For example, according to the torrent news website, Microsoft has been working with MarkMonitor for years, but only in the protection of users from phishing attempts. And the recent change to Microsoft's service agreement that has caused so much controversy, is unlikely to target third-party non Microsoft products.

TorrentFreak says that instead of scaring users with unsubstantiated claims or banning the OS entirely, torrent trackers and others should simply try and educate users on the potential privacy pitfalls of Windows 10, and help users fix some of these privacy issues.

From fake PS4s to real RIAA threats, read this and other news stories for the week ending 23 August 2015

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