{"id":2096,"date":"2009-01-27T12:08:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T17:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2009-01-27T12:27:39","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T17:27:39","slug":"free-monty-python-videos-on-youtube-lead-to-23000-dvd-sale-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2096","title":{"rendered":"Free Monty Python Videos on Youtube Lead to 23,000% DVD Sale Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tired of people uploading low-quality versions of all of their old material to YouTube, the guys behind Monty Python put up a huge chunk of their material in clean, organized, high-resolution* glory.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2009\/01\/23\/free-monty-python-videos-on-youtube-lead-to-23000-dvd-sale-increase\/\">People then bought the DVDs<\/a> by the truckload. <\/p>\n<p>This sort of thing does not exonerate pirates, but it does suggest that perhaps DRM and lawsuits isn&#8217;t the best way to fight them. Not that I needed convincing. <\/p>\n<p>Related:  I wish <a href=\"http:\/\/whedonesque.com\/\">Joss Whedon<\/a> would tell us how <a href=\"http:\/\/drhorrible.com\/\">Dr. Horrible<\/a> did. <\/p>\n<p><small>* High resolution being somewhat relative when it comes to streaming videos.  You&#8217;re not going to mistake this for Blu-ray or anything.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tired of people uploading low-quality versions of all of their old material to YouTube, the guys behind Monty Python put up a huge chunk of their material in clean, organized, high-resolution* glory. People then bought the DVDs by the truckload. This sort of thing does not exonerate pirates, but it does suggest that perhaps DRM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}