Microsoft Scrambles to Send Takedown Notices in Xbox 720 Secrets Leak

From DailyTech: Want to know secret details about Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) upcoming Xbox 720? Too bad, says Microsoft.

A small army of lawyers at Covington & Burling LLP, among the international law firms whom Microsoft employs, have taken to the internet waging war against a documents leak which hit the web over the weekend. Takedown notices are flying, removing copies of the document on DropBox, Scribd, and more.

Google Inc. (GOOG) claims Microsoft is one of the most legally active companies in terms of takedown notices, requesting that 448,236 URLs be killed this month alone. Some of those are due to its efforts to stomp out piracy and botnet hosting. But others come from more questionable applications, such as trying to silence leaks.

The leaked Xbox 720 slides describe Kinect 2 and the "Fortaleza project" a Google-glasses like effort that could bring augmented reality to the Xbox 720 as early as 2014.

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