{"id":1890,"date":"2007-11-08T09:36:53","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T13:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/08\/baseball-apologizes-for-foul-drm-ball\/"},"modified":"2007-11-08T09:36:53","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T13:36:53","slug":"baseball-apologizes-for-foul-drm-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/08\/baseball-apologizes-for-foul-drm-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball apologizes for foul DRM ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball fan Allan Wood, who downloaded dozens of major-league games through the Major League Baseball service and paid good money for them (close to $300), wrote a post yesterday that got a lot of attention in both the blogosphere and traditional media: it seems his files <a href=\"http:\/\/joyofsox.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/mlb-game-downloads-still-inaccessible.html\">suddenly stopped working<\/a>, because MLB had changed the kind of digital-rights management it used and failed to tell anyone. Not only that, but they refused to provide any refunds or allow him to download the games again.<\/p>\n<p>Wood has blogged about this problem before, but for whatever reason (because it got picked up by Techmeme.com perhaps? Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/11\/07\/mlb-rips-off-fans-wh.html\">BoingBoing?<\/a>) it got more attention this time &#8212; and MLB apparently heard about the rising storm of negative publicity somehow. An update to Wood&#8217;s blog says that he got a call from a representative for the league, <a href=\"http:\/\/joyofsox.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/my-conference-call-with-mlb.html\">who admitted that<\/a> they had handled things badly, and said that everyone affected would be able to download their games again for free. Staci at PaidContent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paidcontent.org\/entry\/419-mlbam-switch-breaks-licenses-for-thousands-of-video-downloads-fix-now-b\/\">also talked<\/a> to someone at MLB about it.<\/p>\n<p>Score: Baseball &#8211; 0; Blogosphere &#8211; 1.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball fan Allan Wood, who downloaded dozens of major-league games through the Major League Baseball service and paid good money for them (close to $300), wrote a post yesterday that got a lot of attention in both the blogosphere and traditional media: it seems his files suddenly stopped working, because MLB had changed the kind &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/08\/baseball-apologizes-for-foul-drm-ball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baseball apologizes for foul DRM ball&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}