{"id":547325,"date":"2005-11-22T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T09:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547325-sony-apologises-for-content-protection-cds.html"},"modified":"2005-11-22T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T09:58:11","slug":"sony-apologises-for-content-protection-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547325-sony-apologises-for-content-protection-cds.html","title":{"rendered":"Sony apologises for content-protection CDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The company issued an apology on its Web site, citing security concerns raised by installation of the XCP software, provided by digital-rights-management vendor First4Internet. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Sony instructed retailers to remove unsold CDs with XCP software from their store shelves and inventory. But the trouble isn&#8217;t over as the company faces charges of deceptive advertising, illegal spyware distribution and computer crimes in three lawsuits. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"2\">INet-Bridge<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two weeks of withering criticism, Sony BMG Music Entertainment last week stopped selling 50 CD titles with its extended copy protection content-protection software, removed the discs from stores, and offered replacements without copy protection to customers, according to reports. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}