{"id":736,"date":"2008-10-14T21:27:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T15:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=736"},"modified":"2008-10-14T21:27:21","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T15:57:21","slug":"want-a-collection-you-can-always-use-pirate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/want-a-collection-you-can-always-use-pirate-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Want a collection you can always use? Pirate it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funny but true:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/steal_this_comic.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"steal_this_comic\" width=\"498\" height=\"469\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/steal_this_comic.png 498w, https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/steal_this_comic-300x282.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have always hated DRM protected files. I need the option to do whatever I want with something I paid for where ever I want to. <\/p>\n<p>I have personally been hit by DRM once. I bought a book from one of the online retailers and it was a protected PRC file. I downloaded their reader when I bought the book and read it. Then I had to format my system and didn&#8217;t bother to install the reader software. Now after about a year I wanted to read the book again but couldn&#8217;t. For some reason my account on the site was deleted and the reader won&#8217;t let me open the book without logging into the site. So I am stuck with a file that I can&#8217;t use even though I paid for it. <\/p>\n<p>Thankfully I had initially taken a screen shot of every page of the book because I intended to convert it to html and I still had those files on my system so I ended up converting them to text and finally to html. <\/p>\n<p>So in order to use something I had paid for I had to pirate it&#8230; Go figure&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I will stick with DRM free books\/music in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>Image Source: http:\/\/xkcd.com\/488\/<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny but true: I have always hated DRM protected files. I need the option to do whatever I want with something I paid for where ever I want to. I have personally been hit by DRM once. I bought a book from one of the online retailers and it was a protected PRC file. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}