{"id":297,"date":"2008-07-23T00:28:46","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T04:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=297"},"modified":"2008-07-23T00:28:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T04:28:46","slug":"mpaa-trying-to-control-digital-media-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2008\/07\/23\/mpaa-trying-to-control-digital-media-again\/","title":{"rendered":"MPAA trying to control digital media, again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised.\u00a0 <a title=\"BoingBoing - MPAA wants FCC to approve SOC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/07\/22\/mpaa-wants-to-random.html\">The MPAA is trying (again) to get the FCC to agree to allow it to implement a type of DRM<\/a> that would give them total control over your digital media equipment.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a system called selectable output control and would give content creators the ability to prevent you from viewing your legally paid for media if they don&#8217;t like\/trust the device you wish to view it on.\u00a0 If the hardware isn&#8217;t blessed by the MPAA, all you&#8217;ll get is a black screen.\u00a0 The FCC told the MPAA where they could take SOC back in 2003 and they should reiterate that opinion.\u00a0 (It couldn&#8217;t hurt to remind them why&#8230;)\u00a0 <a title=\"EFF opposes MPAA's SOC request\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2008\/07\/eff-opposes-mpaas-selectable-output-control-fcc-pe\">The EFF is also opposing this ridiculous idea<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised.\u00a0 The MPAA is trying (again) to get the FCC to agree to allow it to implement a type of DRM that would give them total control over your digital media equipment.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a system &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2008\/07\/23\/mpaa-trying-to-control-digital-media-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[90,91],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies-and-tv","category-tech","tag-mpaa","tag-soc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}