I still have the muscle memory of ownership. Open the case, press the disc into the console, wait for the small ritual of recognition, and trust that the object in your hand is enough. That trust is why the latest Xbox outage felt stranger than a routine service interruption. The surprise was not that a network failed. The surprise was that a disc suddenly behaved like a permission request. ```figure title: The outage in miniature value: Around 20 hours caption: The BBC reported that Xbox technology chief Scott Van Vliet said the outage lasted around 20 hours and was caused by a licensing issue. source: BBC
- [Xbox outage shouldn’t have affected games on disc, Microsoft confirms | The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/games/972416/xbox-outage-game-disc-entitlement-check-issue)
## Sources
- [Xbox tech boss says 'unacceptable' outage should not have affected disc games](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5637p7qpno)
- [Xbox outage shouldn’t have affected games on disc, Microsoft confirms | The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/games/972416/xbox-outage-game-disc-entitlement-check-issue)
- [Xbox Users Lose Access To Games During Server Outtage... A Glimpse Of The All-Digital Future](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo7UE9bP_0M)
- [This weekend's Xbox outage put Microsoft's DRM back in the spotlight | Windows Central](https://www.windowscentral.com/weekends-xbox-outage-was-inflection-point-drm)
- [16-hour Xbox outage even stopped physical games from working — company blames licensing issue for incident that prohibited gaming across three generations of console | Tom's Hardware](https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/xbox/xbox-blames-a-licensing-service-outside-xbox-for-the-16-hour-outage-that-blocked-disc-games)
- [Xbox outage shouldn't have affected games on disc ...](https://www.theverge.com/games/972416/xbox-outage-game-disc-entitlement-check-issue)
- [Xbox tech boss says 'unacceptable' outage should not have affected disc games](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5637p7qpno)
- [Xbox’s biggest outage in years proved something uncomfortable — even physical discs don’t mean you truly own your games | Windows Central](https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xboxs-biggest-outage-in-years-proved-something-uncomfortable-even-physical-discs-dont-mean-you-truly-own-your-games)
- [Xbox Users Lose Access To Games During Server Outtage ...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo7UE9bP_0M)
- [16-hour Xbox outage even stopped physical games from working](https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/xbox/xbox-blames-a-licensing-service-outside-xbox-for-the-16-hour-outage-that-blocked-disc-games)