{"id":168,"date":"2010-12-11T16:48:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T21:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kristinjanz.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2010-12-11T16:48:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T21:48:28","slug":"copyright-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Copyright in the digital age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from a couple of months back, so some of you may already have seen it.  It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/blog\/2010\/oct\/05\/free-online-content-cory-doctorow\">an opinion piece on the Guardian technology blog by Canadian science fiction writer Cory Doctorow<\/a>, who&#8217;s also involved with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>I found it a thought-provoking, rationally argued, and also quite sobering examination of the effect that the internet has had and will continue to have on copyright issues, and the incredibly short-sighted, naive, and even dangerous legislative responses pushed by lobbyists from the entertainment industry (if you think threats to free speech are dangerous).  <\/p>\n<p>His argument is basically that attempts to stop illegal copying of music, movies and e-books are doomed to fail, despite attempts to hold internet service providers liable for illegal downloads, or legal action against suspected infringers.  As he says: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hard drives won&#8217;t magically get bulkier but hold fewer bits and cost more.  Networks won&#8217;t be harder to use. PCs won&#8217;t be slower. People won&#8217;t stop learning to type &#8216;Toy Story 3 bittorrent&#8217; into Google. Anyone who claims otherwise is selling something \u00e2\u20ac\u201c generally some kind of unworkable magic anti-copying beans that they swear, this time, will really work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from a couple of months back, so some of you may already have seen it. It&#8217;s an opinion piece on the Guardian technology blog by Canadian science fiction writer Cory Doctorow, who&#8217;s also involved with the Electronic Frontier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/?p=168\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[94],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-copyright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}