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Microsoft deploys takedown notices to those hosting Xbox 720 roadmap

In an incredibly unsubtle move, Microsoft has lent credence to a leaked presentation relating to the next Xbox by requesting that the original publisher take it down. The newly-leaked but two-year-old document refers to the 'Xbox 720', some tech specs and a release date of 2013. Czech site Ihned.cz published the presentation and has now been told by Microsoft's legal team to remove the presentations because it had "violated its copyright by publishing companies" and "the presentation did not include identifying authors or reservation of rights" (translation). Take a breakdownLaw firm Covington and Birling LLP, which lists Microsoft as one of its clients, had previously asked the site hosting the leaked documents (Scribd), to remove them from its servers. So instead of leaving up a bunch of documents that everyone who's interested has already seen but could feasibly have dismissed as fake, Microsoft and its lawyers have ensured that we all now think the presentations are legit and that we'll se

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