{"id":46,"date":"2005-11-16T16:26:49","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T13:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2005-12-07T01:32:34","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T22:32:34","slug":"drm-and-consumer-hostility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Sony just hit consumer hostility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok,  my 5 cents to the ongoing Sony bashing. It is found that their &#8220;rootkit&#8221; crap not only fucks your system up but also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-interweb.com\/serendipity\/index.php?\/archives\/52-Is-Sony-in-violation-of-the-LGPL-Part-II.html\">infringes copyright<\/a>. Unless the developers have been bought out, which I suspect is impossible, someone should advice the class-action-sharks in the US law firms to add statutory copyright infringement claims in their cases. Of course Sony can surrender the sources and thus fix any possible &#8220;irreparable harm&#8221; but I don&#8217;t think they can avoid basic infringement payments since they have already profited from a product based on the copyright of others. Meanwhile, the only viable option seems to be  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allofmp3.com\">this russian retailer<\/a> if you need quality music files without DRM-insults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, my 5 cents to the ongoing Sony bashing. It is found that their &#8220;rootkit&#8221; crap not only fucks your system up but also infringes copyright. Unless the developers have been bought out, which I suspect is impossible, someone should advice the class-action-sharks in the US law firms to add statutory copyright infringement claims in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/?p=46\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sony just hit consumer hostility&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}