Recording uploads clips automatically to MS servers so that you can share it, but they have a no explicit content rule so it automatically counts as an infraction

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Let me guess, you can't opt out of uploading the clips

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can, it's just on by default.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Huh, I expected less from Microsoft, I'm actually pleasantly surprised.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Simply recording.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not really. It was the public sharing that got them in trouble.

Maybe they didn't intend to share it, but the default settings are to share all clips.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, it still wasn't shared, just automatically uploaded.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Right. It was automatically uploaded to a server that is publicly available. That's sharing, regardless of whether a "Share" button was involved.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

From what I read, the content was not publicly available, just uploaded.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Perhaps this sentence is ambiguous, and open to interpretation, but to me it sounds like it was unintentionally shared.

According to Vegas, he didn’t intend to share the footage, but the console settings upload these by default

EDIT: I just logged out and checked online. All my clips are available to anyone who goes looking for them. They are public when automatically uploaded.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Uploading does not necessarily imply sharing. I don't share most things I upload to servers, automatically or manually. Perhaps sharing was also done automatically, but that's not clear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you have an Xbox or any experience with their clip system? You can hypothesize based on other systems you are familiar with, but it won't change the reality of what Xbox does.

I just tested it, and you can too. All my clips are available online (most of them are just me accidentally hitting the clip button.) I logged out of my account, searched my gamertag and was able to access them all as a random person on the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

OK, so that's a detail conspicuously missing from the articles I've read. Seems like it's Microsoft's fault.