{"id":47,"date":"2008-07-16T18:11:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T18:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=47"},"modified":"2008-07-16T18:20:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T18:20:01","slug":"drm-is-really-really-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"DRM is really, really stupid."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been avoiding anything ipod related for a long time &#8211; especially since I read <a href=\"http:\/\/craphound.com\/msftdrm.txt\">Cory Doctorow&#8217;s excellent speech<\/a> some years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Today I heard another story where someone wanted, quite reasonably, to put music onto a different player to their normal ipod for a while. And couldn&#8217;t. Yes there are ways round it, but making people jump through hoops to play their own music is not good for business, or as was said to me &#8220;If I had known about this I would never have had an ipod. I will never buy another&#8221;. Nuff said. Your music should be your music.<\/p>\n<p>Googling for Cory + DRM finds a lot of similar comments.<\/p>\n<p>Another funny explanation of drm is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norwinter.com\/e107_plugins\/userjournals_menu\/userjournals.php?blog.7.Siker\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have an MP3 player, but my kids do . . . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been avoiding anything ipod related for a long time &#8211; especially since I read Cory Doctorow&#8217;s excellent speech some years ago. Today I heard another story where someone wanted, quite reasonably, to put music onto a different player to their normal ipod for a while. And couldn&#8217;t. Yes there are ways round it, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}