{"id":439871,"date":"2010-03-17T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100316\/1908348592.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-17T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:48:00","slug":"yet-another-drm-failure-leaves-customers-high-and-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/439871","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another DRM Failure Leaves Customers High And Dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now you should know this &#8212; as DRM&#8217;d music service after DRM&#8217;d music service has screwed over their customers by shutting off the servers on the music they were supposed to be able to access &#8212; but it&#8217;s yet another reminder that if you buy into DRM&#8217;d products, you&#8217;re going to end up screwed over.  The latest, sent in by a bunch of you, is that Australian ISP, Bigpond (from Telstra), is <a href=\"http:\/\/bigpondmusic.com\/WMA_support\/?cid=30070-wma\" >shutting off its DRM servers<\/a> that were used to support Windows Media Audio.  Once again, the DRM did nothing to stop file sharing, but is making life difficult and annoying for legitimate customers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100316\/1908348592.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100316\/1908348592.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100316\/1908348592&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=65dadc40c25ef0ab4d735cbce4af4059&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=65dadc40c25ef0ab4d735cbce4af4059&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=EcDQaRtsuCQ:d9wnUEzhq0w:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=EcDQaRtsuCQ:d9wnUEzhq0w:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=EcDQaRtsuCQ:d9wnUEzhq0w:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/EcDQaRtsuCQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now you should know this &#8212; as DRM&#8217;d music service after DRM&#8217;d music service has screwed over their customers by shutting off the servers on the music they were supposed to be able to access &#8212; but it&#8217;s yet another reminder that if you buy into DRM&#8217;d products, you&#8217;re going to end up screwed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}