{"id":1995,"date":"2007-12-05T11:08:06","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T16:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/05\/nokias-new-feature-comes-with-crap\/"},"modified":"2007-12-05T11:08:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T16:08:06","slug":"nokias-new-feature-comes-with-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/05\/nokias-new-feature-comes-with-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia&#8217;s new feature: Comes With Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A free music-download service on your mobile? Cool. Nokia&#8217;s new &#8220;Comes With Music&#8221; offer? Dumb. The details are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/05\/business\/worldbusiness\/05music.html?ex=1354510800&amp;en=ce51a3d08f335fa3&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">sketchy so far<\/a>, but it sounds like Nokia has done a deal with Universal Music to offer downloads of the record company&#8217;s catalogue for free, with the cost of the music built into the price of the phone. So far, so good. Unfortunately, it sounds like the files are also <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20071204-nokias-unlimited-comes-with-music-plan-misses-the-boat-due-to-drm.html\">DRM-laden<\/a>, and thus crippled.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Register, the songs will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/12\/05\/nokia_free_music_analysis\/\">playable only on one PC<\/a> (not Mac or Linux) and on a Nokia device, and that&#8217;s it. While they will not expire &#8212; as music downloaded with some other services does &#8212; you can&#8217;t burn them to CD or play them anywhere else, although there are hints that burning might be allowed for a fee. Seamus McCauley says that such moves <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualeconomics.typepad.com\/virtualeconomics\/2007\/12\/content-owners.html\">say one thing<\/a> to him: &#8220;uncomprehending death spiral.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A free music-download service on your mobile? Cool. Nokia&#8217;s new &#8220;Comes With Music&#8221; offer? Dumb. The details are sketchy so far, but it sounds like Nokia has done a deal with Universal Music to offer downloads of the record company&#8217;s catalogue for free, with the cost of the music built into the price of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/05\/nokias-new-feature-comes-with-crap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nokia&#8217;s new feature: Comes With Crap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-1995","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\/1995","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=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}