{"id":2372,"date":"2008-04-02T14:23:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T18:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2008-04-02T14:23:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T18:23:18","slug":"gibson-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2372","title":{"rendered":"Gibson Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/374439\/gibson-sues-makers-of-guitar-hero-and-rock-band-for-patent-infringment\">Gibson Sues Makers Of Guitar Hero And Rock Band For Patent Infringment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gibson is suing Activision, Harmonix, Electronic Arts, and MTV over alleged patent infringement over the companies' involvement in Rock Band and the Guitar Hero series. The lawsuit is not over Guitar Hero's use of the iconic Les Paul, SG, and Explorer guitars as controllers, but for violation of a decade-old patent for....drumroll please... \"a method for simulating a live performance using a musical instrument, a 3D headset with stereo speakers, and a pre-recorded concert.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I knew there must be a reason, other than the price, why I've never owned anything made by Gibson - I must have been able to sense their heart of pure evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gibson Sues Makers Of Guitar Hero And Rock Band For Patent Infringment: Gibson is suing Activision, Harmonix, Electronic Arts, and MTV over alleged patent infringement over the companies' involvement in Rock Band and the Guitar Hero series. The lawsuit is not over Guitar Hero's use of the iconic Les Paul, SG, and Explorer guitars as [&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-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}