{"id":8424,"date":"2015-12-15T11:57:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T19:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=8424"},"modified":"2015-12-15T11:57:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T19:57:11","slug":"philips-light-bulbs-got-drm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/15\/philips-light-bulbs-got-drm\/","title":{"rendered":"Philips light bulbs got DRM!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20151214\/07452133070\/lightbulb-drm-philips-locks-purchasers-out-third-party-bulbs-with-firmware-update.shtml\">Philips just instituted DRM restrictions on <em>light bulbs and fixtures<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/Meme\/evilest-thing.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I am impressed. Not as impressed as I was by Keurig doing it on <em>coffee<\/em>, but impressed. That&#8217;s evil!<\/p>\n<p><b>eta:<\/b> Oh, hey, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/story\/15\/12\/16\/1856241\/philips-wont-block-third-party-bulbs-after-all?utm_source=slashdot&#038;utm_medium=facebook\">they totally reversed themselves<\/a>! Hilarious.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Use cyber2015 at checkout for 20% off all music, including<\/i> Bone Walker, <i>the long-list Grammy Award nominated album.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philips just instituted DRM restrictions on light bulbs and fixtures. I am impressed. Not as impressed as I was by Keurig doing it on coffee, but impressed. That&#8217;s evil! eta: Oh, hey, they totally reversed themselves! Hilarious. Use cyber2015 at checkout for 20% off all music, including Bone Walker, the long-list Grammy Award nominated album<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}