{"id":616,"date":"2008-05-09T14:35:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T13:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=616"},"modified":"2008-05-09T14:35:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T13:35:56","slug":"another-drm-trainwreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/616-another-drm-trainwreck.html","title":{"rendered":"Another DRM trainwreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former URGE subscriber <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.com\/388265\/thanks-rob-glaser-++-now-my-mom-cares-about-drm\" target=\"_blank\">tells her story<\/a> on Valleywag:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I got an email that said Urge was closing and my membership would be transferred to Rhapsody 25 &#8230; I was unable to refresh my licenses because Urge had closed &#8230; turns out, they never moved the DRM over to their servers because &#8220;they couldn&#8217;t.&#8221; Something about DRM being specific to a server and when the Urge server was shut down all of the licenses were &#8220;lost.&#8221; &#8230; Basically, IMHO, Rhapsody stole $311 of CDs from me, which is what I told them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This customer got all her money back. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:3bb6d429-5833-48a9-a84b-569c933abc2f\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/drm\" rel=\"tag\">drm<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/urge\" rel=\"tag\">urge<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/rhapsody\" rel=\"tag\">rhapsody<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former URGE subscriber tells her story on Valleywag: I got an email that said Urge was closing and my membership would be transferred to Rhapsody 25 &#8230; I was unable to refresh my licenses because Urge had closed &#8230; turns out, they never moved the DRM over to their servers because &#8220;they couldn&#8217;t.&#8221; Something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/616-another-drm-trainwreck.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another DRM trainwreck<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drm","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}