{"id":963,"date":"2005-01-21T08:32:18","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T08:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=963"},"modified":"2005-01-21T08:32:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-21T08:32:18","slug":"sony_admits_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"Sony admits their attempt to lock us in a box failed: DRM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s non mp3 support in it&#8217;s portable audio devices was a mistake, they now admit.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,4057,12005964%255E15306,00.html\">Yuri Kageyama<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i> Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, said he and other Sony employees had been frustrated for years with management&#8217;s reluctance to introduce products like Apple&#8217;s iPod, mainly because the Sony had music and movie units that were worried about content rights.<\/p>\n<p>But Sony&#8217;s divisions were finally beginning to work together and share a common agenda, Mr Kutaragi said at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Tokyo. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Well, duh.    Most of these DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) schemes will fail.  Slashdot <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/05\/01\/21\/0117221.shtml?tid=141&amp;tid=1\">discussion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s non mp3 support in it&#8217;s portable audio devices was a mistake, they now admit. Yuri Kageyama: Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, said he and other Sony employees had been frustrated for years with management&#8217;s reluctance to introduce products like Apple&#8217;s iPod, mainly because the Sony had music and movie units that were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963"}],"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=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}