{"id":1445,"date":"2005-06-12T08:36:41","date_gmt":"2005-06-12T08:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2005-06-12T08:36:41","modified_gmt":"2005-06-12T08:36:41","slug":"miller_on_drm_l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1445","title":{"rendered":"Miller on DRM Lock-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corante.com\/importance\/archives\/2005\/06\/10\/drm_and_lockin_apple_vs_microsoft.php\">Ernest Miller<\/a> on Apple &#038; Microsoft DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) Lock-in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Look at it from Microsoft&#8217;s point of view. Every song you purchase from iTunes with Apple&#8217;s proprietary, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DMCA\">DMCA<\/a>-protected DRM is one more bit of lock-in to Apple. When you&#8217;ve got a hundred or two hundred or more of your favorite (let&#8217;s face it, you buy your favorites first) songs in iTunes format, you&#8217;ve got some significant <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vendor_lock-in\">lock-in<\/a> in the form of very <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Switching_costs\">high switching costs<\/a>. Just the way Steve Jobs likes it.<\/p>\n<p>And that lock-in is growing at a rate of millions of songs every month.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Very useful post, Ernie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernest Miller on Apple &#038; Microsoft DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) Lock-in: Look at it from Microsoft&#8217;s point of view. Every song you purchase from iTunes with Apple&#8217;s proprietary, DMCA-protected DRM is one more bit of lock-in to Apple. When you&#8217;ve got a hundred or two hundred or more of your favorite (let&#8217;s face it, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}