{"id":80889,"date":"2009-12-14T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091214\/0005017331.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-14T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T15:01:00","slug":"microsoft-drm-locks-you-out-of-your-own-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/80889","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft DRM Locks You Out Of Your Own Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you haven’t been paying attention, there’s yet to be a good reason put forth for using DRM that I can remember. We’ve seen over and over again how DRM seems to interfere with legitimate actions, but does nothing at all to slow down “pirates.” Slashdot<\/a> points to a rather scary situations for those who used Microsoft Office 2003 to DRM certain documents for their own use. Apparently, a screwup on the part of Microsoft (oops) means that many people got locked out of their own documents<\/a>. Basically, Microsoft let a certificate expire, and that’s made life difficult for lots and lots of people. So what good is DRM again?<\/p>\n

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In case you haven’t been paying attention, there’s yet to be a good reason put forth for using DRM that I can remember. We’ve seen over and over again how DRM seems to interfere with legitimate actions, but does nothing at all to slow down “pirates.” Slashdot points to a rather scary situations for those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80889","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=80889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}