{"id":1246,"date":"2005-10-03T21:25:12","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T21:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2005\/10\/copyright_nonse\/"},"modified":"2005-10-03T21:25:12","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T21:25:12","slug":"copyright_nonse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/copyright_nonse\/","title":{"rendered":"Copyright Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/newmedia\/story\/0,7496,1584020,00.html\">This article<\/a> leads you to at first think that content producers are failing to actually copyright their product &#8211; perhaps allowing it to slip into public domain or something.<br \/>\nActually, it seems to be Macrovision touting for business. They obviously don&#8217;t think that they&#8217;re getting their wretched technology onto enough CDs and DVDs.<br \/>\nIf a CD has the copyright protection that Macrovision has on it, then it&#8217;s no longer actually a &#8220;CD&#8221; according to the white book standards. It&#8217;s a disc that may play on your CD player, but that&#8217;s not the same thing &#8211; it can&#8217;t actually have the CD logo on it. Their technology is the kind of rubbish that frustrates consumers who want to legally place their purchased music onto their mp3 players.<br \/>\nI guess that with DRM being sown up by the major players &#8211; Apple and Microsoft &#8211; the long term future of CD copy protection is bleak. Oh, and their DVD protection can easily be sidestepped. The technically savvy who are able to rip a DVD and put it onto a torrenting site are not the sort of people who&#8217;re going to be too worried by &#8220;CP&#8221; appearing on the back of the DVD they&#8217;re ripping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article leads you to at first think that content producers are failing to actually copyright their product &#8211; perhaps allowing it to slip into public domain or something. Actually, it seems to be Macrovision touting for business. They obviously don&#8217;t think that they&#8217;re getting their wretched technology onto enough CDs and DVDs. If a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}