{"id":37021,"date":"2012-05-02T11:04:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T09:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=37021"},"modified":"2012-05-02T16:51:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T14:51:25","slug":"xbox-360-banned-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/37021-xbox-360-banned-in-germany","title":{"rendered":"Xbox 360 banned in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German gamers will no longer be getting some <a title=\"Xbox 360\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19882-Xbox-360\">360<\/a> love after a court ruling on Wednesday (2 May 2012) banned <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11861-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> from selling their console in the German market.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling came as per a breached agreement, where Microsoft used certain video-compression software in the Xbox 360 (as well as <a title=\"Windows 7\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/23889-Windows\">Windows 7<\/a>), which <a title=\"Motorola\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211039-Motorola\">Motorola<\/a> has patented.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is now set to remove all consoles from German retailers.<\/p>\n<p>A Microsoft spokeswoman said that the outcome was &#8220;disappointing&#8221;, although the company may still appeal the judgement at a later stage.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/11284\/microsoft-products-banned-in-germany\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft bends the rules and gets caught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":37023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3959,91,3958,2792,3960,79,3961],"class_list":["post-37021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-germany","tag-microsoft","tag-motorola","tag-patent","tag-windows-7","tag-xbox-360","tag-xbox-360-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37024,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37021\/revisions\/37024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}