{"id":434,"date":"2006-06-21T23:33:07","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T05:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=434"},"modified":"2006-06-21T23:33:07","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T05:33:07","slug":"crooked_links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Crooked links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The normally sensible David Berlind goes into all sorts of funny contortions to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/BTL\/?p=3231\">justify<\/a> ripping off public radio programs. Look, This American Life charges for downloads and podcasts of its programs. That&#8217;s the only fact that matters. It means if you download those programs without paying for them, you&#8217;re guilty of taking a five-finger discount. And if you write and post links <em>for the express purpose of helping other people take the programs without paying for them,<\/em> you&#8217;re making a mistake. The degree of technical difficulty involved in any of this is immaterial.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, wouldn&#8217;t it be easier to just pay the lousy $3.95 and be done with it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The normally sensible David Berlind goes into all sorts of funny contortions to justify ripping off public radio programs. Look, This American Life charges for downloads and podcasts of its programs. That&#8217;s the only fact that matters. It means if you download those programs without paying for them, you&#8217;re guilty of taking a five-finger discount. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}