{"id":919,"date":"2007-01-14T21:49:07","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/index.php\/?p=919"},"modified":"2007-01-14T21:49:07","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T19:49:07","slug":"lastfm-cripples-player-due-to-pressure-from-a-record-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2007\/01\/14\/lastfm-cripples-player-due-to-pressure-from-a-record-label\/","title":{"rendered":"Last.fm cripples player due to pressure from a record label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent update of the until-then-excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/\">Last.fm<\/a> player was a downgrade in features. I had assumed this was either by a mistake or just due to my laziness for not searching vigorously enough where those features had been moved to.<\/p>\n<p>I just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/user\/fuuppari\/journal\/2007\/01\/14\/315370\/\">found out those features have simply been <em>stripped<\/em> from the player<\/a>. Yup, gone.<\/p>\n<p>And guess who&#8217;s behind it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><q>We were asked by a major record label to remove these features and it was a choice between removing the features or not receiving their music any more, as well as being sued.<\/q><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/forum\/34905\/_\/207467\/1#f2611611\" class=\"source\">Russ@Last.fm<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent update of the until-then-excellent Last.fm player was a downgrade in features. I had assumed this was either by a mistake or just due to my laziness for not searching vigorously enough where those features had been moved to. I just found out those features have simply been stripped from the player. Yup, gone. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12,15,16,20],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-internet","tag-music","tag-news","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}