Xbox team’s ‘consumer detector’ would dis-Kinect freeloading TV viewers (Aside)

Xbox team’s ‘consumer detector’ would dis-Kinect freeloading TV viewers

"In one scenario, the system would then charge for the television show or movie based on the number of viewers in the room. Or, if the number of viewers exceeds the limits laid out by a particular content license, the system would halt playback unless additional viewing rights were purchased". 

The system could also take into account the age of viewers, limiting playback of mature content to adults, for example. This patent application doesn’t explain how that would work, but a separate Microsoft patent application last year described a system for using sensors to estimate age based on the proportions of their body.

The simple IDEA of this technology is baffling. Neglecting ways of tricking the system and avoidance (which would be inevitable), the fact that you would be watched in your own home, in your personal setting, is wrong. Forget privacy, as even if you are not being watched by a human, you are being detected by a computer who then is telling a human. The first scenario explained has many holes. However, this could possibly lead to people hiding in their own homes to simply watch television. The fact that people should be hiding in their own homes is ridiculous, especially because some money-hungry entity is only after profit. In the second scenario, any technology that measures the dimensions of your body and related that to your age is dumb as those proportions are arbitrary. Consider a little person or a small adult, would they be prevented from watching something that they've paid for, in their own setting, because some computer tells them they can't. If computers start telling us what we can and cannot due, arbitrary or not, can lead to some messed up problems down the line. 
However, I do not seeing this technology being implemented in the slightest bit. The day Xbox uses this technology, is the day everyone switches to the console that doesn't use it. This far surpasses privacy issues and will undoubtedly anger many people, which is a compelling factor against its implication.