{"id":5509,"date":"2002-03-01T16:47:37","date_gmt":"2002-03-01T21:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=5509"},"modified":"2011-09-30T12:52:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T16:52:20","slug":"stop-digital-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2002\/03\/01\/stop-digital-piracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Digital Piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Eisner in this Reuters article, &#8220;Congress needs to encourage common ways of stopping digital piracy of movies, TV shows and other entertainment products that threatens to stifle industry innovation&#8230;&#8221;. If you are already of the opinion that the media industy has no innovation, then I guess digital piracy is supposed to make it worse?<\/p>\n<p>The last truly innovative movie I&#8217;ve seen in theatres was\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/sony\/crouching_tiger_hidden_dragon\/\">Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/a>. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I loved\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lordoftherings.net\/\">The Fellowship of the Ring<\/a>. I have seen it more times in theatres than any other movie. Still it was not really very innovative.<\/p>\n<p>We have become a culture of recycling everything. Trends and ideas. Bell bottoms, afros, recycled plots, and boy bands no one can articulate the difference between except names. Usually I don&#8217;t mind it. If something works, then why change it? Innovation is good, but don&#8217;t blame it on something that is not really having that much of an impact. CD sales were up\u00c2\u00a0during a recession\u00c2\u00a0until 9-11. The losses during that period was enough to give them a 4% loss for the year.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gerards.tumblr.com\/\">Lacey<\/a> has a new site design.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Eisner in this Reuters article, &#8220;Congress needs to encourage common ways of stopping digital piracy of movies, TV shows and other entertainment products that threatens to stifle industry innovation&#8230;&#8221;. If you are already of the opinion that the media industy has no innovation, then I guess digital piracy is supposed to make it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1213,56,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-pitas","category-movies-films-tv","category-music-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-1qR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}