{"id":213,"date":"2012-08-21T21:09:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T11:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/?p=213"},"modified":"2012-08-21T21:09:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T11:09:27","slug":"nero-tells-me-im-a-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/2012\/08\/nero-tells-me-im-a-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nero tells me I&#8217;m a criminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After installing Windows 8, I went to reinstall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nero.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nero 10<\/a> (because they broke Recode in Nero 11 by trying to make it &ldquo;friendly&rdquo;) because my daughter likes Fireman Sam at the moment and I wanted to mp4 some of the TV I&#8217;d recorded for her.&nbsp; Turns out that the idiots at Nero have decided that no one would ever keep their product around for as long as I have and through the number of reinstalls I have and therefore I must be a criminal:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/nero.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Nero\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/nero_thumb.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the problem with stupid DRM decisions.&nbsp; Had I taken the easy (and cheaper) route of piracy then some cracker would have solved this for me and I&#8217;d never have had any issues with the program.&nbsp; Instead, by paying for the software, I get subjected to random failures like this which require me to justify to the company that I paid good money to that I&#8217;m actually NOT a criminal.&nbsp; What a wonderful way to make me think twice about ever giving money again and just taking the easier, cheaper and better performing route of piracy.<\/p>\n<p>All I can say is they completely lost me as a future customer today (although Nero 11 had me most of the way there anyway).<\/p>\n<div class=\"bjtags\">Tags:  <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/nero\">nero<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/drm\">drm<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/criminal\">criminal<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/accusation\">accusation<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/piracy\">piracy<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/patent\">patent<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/activation\">activation<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After installing Windows 8, I went to reinstall Nero 10 (because they broke Recode in Nero 11 by trying to make it &ldquo;friendly&rdquo;) because my daughter likes Fireman Sam at the moment and I wanted to mp4 some of the TV I&#8217;d recorded for her.&nbsp; Turns out that the idiots at Nero have decided that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}