{"id":277,"date":"2004-01-27T23:40:04","date_gmt":"2004-01-28T07:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/downloadable-music-and-drm\/"},"modified":"2004-01-27T23:40:04","modified_gmt":"2004-01-28T07:40:04","slug":"downloadable-music-and-drm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/downloadable-music-and-drm\/","title":{"rendered":"Downloadable music and DRM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.craphound.com\">Cory Doctorow<\/a> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2004_01_01_archive.html#107522707986132477\">great post<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\">BoingBoing<\/a> about the sad state of music downloads in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/2004\/01\/26.html#a6361\">someone else<\/a> who recommends that we choose the lesser of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\">two<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\">evils<\/a>. I <a href=\"\/blog\/archive\/cant-we-all-just-get-along\">voiced sentiments<\/a> similar to Cory&#8217;s something similar a while back. I still refuse to use one of these services unless they offer in a format that I can use on any player that I choose. Once I buy it, I want the right to decide what to do with it. If I do something bad with it, come get me, but don&#8217;t give me a choice that&#8217;s worse than what I had before. Until someone finally comes up with a reasonable solution, I&#8217;m holding on to my cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow has a great post on BoingBoing about the sad state of music downloads in response to someone else who recommends that we choose the lesser of two evils. I voiced sentiments similar to Cory&#8217;s something similar a while back. I still refuse to use one of these services unless they offer in a <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/downloadable-music-and-drm\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-4t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}