{"id":45,"date":"2006-02-05T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2006-02-05T22:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2006-02-05T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-02-05T22:30:11","slug":"i-give-up-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/05\/i-give-up-again\/","title":{"rendered":"I give up again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a ray of hope when I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slyck.com\/forums\/viewtopic.php?t=18933\">found out<\/a> that many of the major content providers are working on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coral-interop.org\/\">cross-platform DRM<\/a> and that Sony is part of that effort.  So I decided to give them another try.  I downloaded about $7 worth of music and then discovered that even using Sony&#8217;s own music store, I still couldn&#8217;t transfer everything to my MD player.  I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s the music label&#8217;s fault or some flaw in the software, which I&#8217;m finding somewhat hard to use in general, but it doesn&#8217;t matter.  When the labels and the software companies get their act together, I&#8217;ll work with them.  Until then I&#8217;ll settle for my approximately two (non-copy-protected) CDs a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a ray of hope when I found out that many of the major content providers are working on cross-platform DRM and that Sony is part of that effort. So I decided to give them another try. I downloaded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/05\/i-give-up-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}