{"id":1539,"date":"2012-02-03T13:54:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T20:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2012-02-03T13:54:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T20:54:35","slug":"acta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2012\/02\/03\/acta\/","title":{"rendered":"ACTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metinalista.si\/why-i-signed-acta\/\">This confession<\/a>\u00a0came to my attention via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/content\/view\/6290\/196\/\">Michael Geist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdtimes.com\/blog\/post\/2012\/01\/30\/The-case-for-piracy.aspx\">this<\/a> came at the same time via 3QuarksDaily, and I was also pleased to see that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=neil+young+piracy&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t\">Neil Young<\/a> has joined those who see the excessive criminalization of media sharing (and especially of \u00a0private copying) as ill advised.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I am not a big user of commercial media, but the arrogant presumption of assholes stealing my money to pay for copying I will never do, and threatening to lock media that I do buy into playability only on proprietary platforms, has put me firmly in the pro-pirate camp. And I expect to stay there until the media world either rots away or comes to its senses and adopts a more reasonable and respectful attitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This confession\u00a0came to my attention via Michael Geist. Coincidentally this came at the same time via 3QuarksDaily, and I was also pleased to see that Neil Young has joined those who see the excessive criminalization of media sharing (and especially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2012\/02\/03\/acta\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}