{"id":381,"date":"2010-04-21T20:47:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T02:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2010-04-21T20:47:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T02:47:40","slug":"copying-is-not-theft-or-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/copying-is-not-theft-or-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Copying is Not Theft&#8230;Or is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4&amp;feature=player_embedded]<\/p>\n<p>This video is a rather &#8220;cute&#8221; argument in favor of digital copying, but the logic has some serious flaws. As YouTube commentator &#8220;spare2288&#8221; noted (with a little ad hominem thrown in for effect), &#8220;Copying is not theft. okaaaay. Also,\ufeff theft is  wrong. uhh yeahhh. Therefore copying is not wrong. hmm&#8230;sorry are you  a moron?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On another blog, &#8220;Anonymous&#8221; said, &#8220;I&#8217;m sure the manufacturer of the bicycle in the cartoon will be glad  that making a copy of the bicycle is so easy. This will free him from  the burden of actually manufacturing and selling bicycles which used to  be a high-paid technical position. User-generated copying saved him just  like it saved the music industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a bicycle maker, or musicians, having people copy your work for free may not put you in the mood to sing along with this catchy little tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4&amp;feature=player_embedded] This video is a rather &#8220;cute&#8221; argument in favor of digital copying, but the logic has some serious flaws. As YouTube commentator &#8220;spare2288&#8221; noted (with a little ad hominem thrown in for effect), &#8220;Copying is not theft. okaaaay. Also,\ufeff theft is wrong. uhh yeahhh. Therefore copying is not wrong. hmm&#8230;sorry are you a moron?&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/copying-is-not-theft-or-is-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Copying is Not Theft&#8230;Or is it?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-industry","category-music","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}