{"id":7292,"date":"2010-02-26T17:20:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T22:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7292"},"modified":"2010-05-12T09:09:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T14:09:48","slug":"experienced-points-piracy-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7292","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Piracy Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit I&#8217;m suffering from a little DRM Discussion Fatigue.  For the past few weeks I&#8217;ve said to myself, &#8220;That&#8217;s it, let&#8217;s talk about something else now.&#8221; And then I end up authoring another one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/7225-Experienced-Points-Piracy-Numbers\">these things<\/a>.  Another chance to put a few more whip-marks on the festering horse carcass that is the piracy debate.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that this stuff isn&#8217;t important, it&#8217;s just that I&#8217;m saddened that it can&#8217;t go anywhere. Pirates won&#8217;t stop doing their thing. Publishers won&#8217;t stop escalating their DRM efforts. People like me aren&#8217;t going to just shrug our shoulders and stop caring about the rights and privacy concerns that have made us so cantankerous these last few years. While we continue to exchange information and in some cases we even come dangerously close to understanding one another, we never approach anything  that might be called an agreement.  <\/p>\n<p>Next week I will do my utmost to talk about something else. Hopefully something frivolous. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit I&#8217;m suffering from a little DRM Discussion Fatigue. For the past few weeks I&#8217;ve said to myself, &#8220;That&#8217;s it, let&#8217;s talk about something else now.&#8221; And then I end up authoring another one of these things. Another chance to put a few more whip-marks on the festering horse carcass that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292","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=7292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}