Microsoft may have gone
against their initial «always online» DRM
policies surrounding Xbox One but that doesn't mean
publishers are required to do that so as well.
In the days leading up to the vote, the New York Times revealed that Andreas Schwab, the German conservative who initiated the Google break - up proposal, provides competition
policy expertise to a German law firm whose parent company has done work for
publishers that are involved in the antitrust case
against the company.