{"id":199,"date":"2009-06-06T19:45:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T19:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/illegal-downloads-kill-kittens\/"},"modified":"2009-06-06T19:45:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T19:45:21","slug":"illegal-downloads-kill-kittens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/illegal-downloads-kill-kittens\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal downloads kill kittens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Goldacre cleans up some bullshit spouted by the entertainment industry (and lapped up by the tabloids) regarding the cost to the economy of illegal downloads:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.badscience.net\/2009\/06\/home-taping-didnt-kill-music\/\">Home taping didn&#8217;t kill music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gareth Richards on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00jv9mw\">4 stands up<\/a> made a good point about piracy being compared to stealing a handbag. Of course you wouldn&#8217;t steal a handbag. But what if you built a machine that could duplicate one, would that be wrong ? Apart from anything else, if the original owner lost the bag again, she could come to you and use your backup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Goldacre cleans up some bullshit spouted by the entertainment industry (and lapped up by the tabloids) regarding the cost to the economy of illegal downloads: Home taping didn&#8217;t kill music. Gareth Richards on 4 stands up made a good point about piracy being compared to stealing a handbag. Of course you wouldn&#8217;t steal a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}