{"id":510,"date":"2005-11-22T12:20:17","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T17:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=510"},"modified":"2005-11-22T12:26:09","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T17:26:09","slug":"the-all-too-believable-sony-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"The all-too believable Sony hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the big <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1895,1886122,00.asp\">Sony DRM rootkit thing<\/a> hit like a ton of bricks, an enterprising &#8220;news source&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbspot.com\/News\/2005\/11\/sony_photo_sharing.html\">published this article<\/a>, which claimed in rather tongue-in-cheek tones that Sony was embedding <abbr title=\"Digital Rights Management\">DRM<\/abbr> into their digital cameras, to prevent anyone from sharing their photos.  The problem is, people actually <em>believed the story to be true<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Are the believers gullible morons?  I certainly don&#8217;t think so.  After all, the DRM Nazis have taken more ludicrous measures in the past, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/digiwood\/0,1412,60780,00.html\">threatening to sue college students for pointing out that keyboards have shift keys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the way: remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,1282,52665,00.html?tw=wn_story_related\">Sharpie Fix<\/a>?  Well, it appears that the DRM rootkit can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=X&#038;oi=news&#038;start=1&#038;num=3&#038;q=http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/11\/21\/gaffer_tape_trips_up_sony_drm\/&#038;e=50097\">defeated with masking tape<\/a>.  Oh no!  Time to sue 3M!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hoax news article is circulating regarding Sony&#8217;s stance on DRM that people are believing as real.  But is it really that far from the truth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}