{"id":8887,"date":"2006-04-19T13:32:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T13:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8887"},"modified":"2006-04-19T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T13:32:06","slug":"hey-philips-dont-be-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8887","title":{"rendered":"Hey Philips, Don&#8217;t Be Evil!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to patent sleuth Barry Fox, in his current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientisttech.com\/article\/dn9011-invention-the-tvadvert-enforcer.html\" target=\"new\">Invention column<\/a> in New Scientist, Philips has filed a patent for a technology that would make it impossible to fast-forward through commercials on digital video recorders. Basically, the scheme would embed flags in the broadcast signal which would disable user-control of the recorded\/buffered content during commercial blocks. The scheme also includes a provision for a paid opt-out feature where viewers could pay a fee to regain control of their signal. Gee thanks, Philips. Philips? What do they make, again? I can&#8217;t think of the last time I bought a Philips anything. Maybe this is why. I don&#8217;t like the way these people think.<\/p>\n<p> You can peruse the patent <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ostqn\" target=\"new\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to patent sleuth Barry Fox, in his current Invention column in New Scientist, Philips has filed a patent for a technology that would make it impossible to fast-forward through commercials on digital video recorders. Basically, the scheme would embed flags in the broadcast signal which would disable user-control of the recorded\/buffered content during commercial &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8887\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hey Philips, Don&#8217;t Be Evil!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}