{"id":12943,"date":"2006-01-03T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/03\/drm-still-sucks\/"},"modified":"2006-01-03T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-03T22:58:00","slug":"drm-still-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/03\/drm-still-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"DRM (Still) Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/2005\/12\/sony-rootkit-drm-fiasco-ii.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sony&rsquo;s  rootkit fiasco<\/a> had demonstrated how asinine the music industry&rsquo;s attempts at <acronym title=\"Digital Rights Management\">DRM<\/acronym> are, along comes something at least as egregious.  Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/itch.in\/journal\/bad-bad-coldplay\" target=\"_blank\">disclaimer inserted <i>inside<\/i> the newest Coldplay album, <i>X&amp;Y<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/01\/01\/coldplays_new_cd_has.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/i> post where I found this points out, I too wonder whether Coldplay is aware of the presence of this disclaimer.  If I were in their shoes, I certainly wouldn&rsquo;t be happy with something like this being foisted on my fans without my knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead and read the fine print; I guarantee you&rsquo;ll be as dumbfounded as I was.  All of this &ldquo;in order for you to enjoy a high quality music experience.&rdquo;  My ass&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/drm\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">drm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/music\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/dick\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">dick<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-113629815598373697?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought that Sony&rsquo;s rootkit fiasco had demonstrated how asinine the music industry&rsquo;s attempts at DRM are, along comes something at least as egregious. Check out the disclaimer inserted inside the newest Coldplay album, X&amp;Y. As the Boing Boing post where I found this points out, I too wonder whether Coldplay is aware &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/03\/drm-still-sucks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DRM (Still) Sucks&#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-12943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}