{"id":693916,"date":"2010-03-17T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100316\/1908348592.shtml"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:31:54","slug":"yet-another-drm-failure-leaves-customers-high-and-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/693916","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another DRM Failure Leaves Customers High And Dry"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now you should know this — as DRM’d music service after DRM’d music service has screwed over their customers by shutting off the servers on the music they were supposed to be able to access — but it’s yet another reminder that if you buy into DRM’d products, you’re going to end up screwed over. The latest, sent in by a bunch of you, is that Australian ISP, Bigpond (from Telstra), is shutting off its DRM servers<\/a> that were used to support Windows Media Audio. Once again, the DRM did nothing to stop file sharing, but is making life difficult and annoying for legitimate customers.<\/p>\n

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By now you should know this — as DRM’d music service after DRM’d music service has screwed over their customers by shutting off the servers on the music they were supposed to be able to access — but it’s yet another reminder that if you buy into DRM’d products, you’re going to end up screwed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Uwc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795460,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693916\/revisions\/795460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}