{"id":15577,"date":"2002-09-17T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-17T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/17\/in-yet-another-preposterously-idiotic-step-in-the\/"},"modified":"2002-09-17T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-17T16:27:00","slug":"in-yet-another-preposterously-idiotic-step-in-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/17\/in-yet-another-preposterously-idiotic-step-in-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another preposterously idiotic step in the ongoing clash of music companies with &ldquo;music pirates,&rdquo; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/09\/16\/business\/media\/16EPIC.html\" target=\"_blank\">new CDs by Tori Amos and Pearl Jam are being distributed to reviewers inside Sony WalkMans that are glued shut and with headphones glued on<\/a> (NY Times link &#8211; free registration required).  So according to the letter of the <acronym title=\"Digital Millenium Copyright Act\">DMCA<\/acronym>, <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/02\/09\/16\/0647232.shtml?tid=141\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;humans are now circumvention devices&rdquo;<\/a> if they figure out how to get the players open ;-).  How asinine is this?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-85459889?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another preposterously idiotic step in the ongoing clash of music companies with &ldquo;music pirates,&rdquo; new CDs by Tori Amos and Pearl Jam are being distributed to reviewers inside Sony WalkMans that are glued shut and with headphones glued on (NY Times link &#8211; free registration required). So according to the letter of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/17\/in-yet-another-preposterously-idiotic-step-in-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}