{"id":198981,"date":"2007-09-20T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/20\/how-long-before-this-is-hacked\/"},"modified":"2007-09-20T23:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T04:19:00","slug":"how-long-before-this-is-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/20\/how-long-before-this-is-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long Before This is Hacked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dunno, 15-20 minutes?<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/09\/20\/nbc_universal_unveils_nbc_direct_video_download_service_after_itunes_breakup\/\">NBC unveils self-destructing, ad-addled anti-iTunes service<\/a><\/span><br \/><small>Published Thursday 20th September 2007 19:29 GMT<\/small>&#8220;<br \/>By Cade Metz in San Francisco<br \/>Published Thursday 20th September 2007 19:29 GMT<\/p>\n<p>Less than a month after its very public breakup with Apple iTunes (http:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2007\/08\/31\/apple_and_nbc_go_at_it\/), NBC Universal has announced its own rights-restricting video download service.<\/p>\n<p>With the new NBC Direct, due for beta testing sometime in October, you&#8217;ll have the power to download shows like &#8220;The Office&#8221; and &#8220;Heroes&#8221; immediately after they&#8217;re broadcast on national television &#8211; without paying a penny. But don&#8217;t get too excited. You can&#8217;t view these videos on more than one Windows PC. They&#8217;re riddled with commercials you can&#8217;t skip. And they self-destruct after seven days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You got a love it.  Take all the worst features of bloody mindedly stupid DRM, and wrap it all up in one tight package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dunno, 15-20 minutes? NBC unveils self-destructing, ad-addled anti-iTunes servicePublished Thursday 20th September 2007 19:29 GMT&#8220;By Cade Metz in San FranciscoPublished Thursday 20th September 2007 19:29 GMT Less than a month after its very public breakup with Apple iTunes (http:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2007\/08\/31\/apple_and_nbc_go_at_it\/), NBC Universal has announced its own rights-restricting video download service. With the new NBC Direct, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1144,1109,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-electronics","category-ip","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}