{"id":710,"date":"2012-10-08T13:19:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T20:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?p=710"},"modified":"2012-10-08T13:19:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T20:19:06","slug":"pirates-will-always-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"Pirates will always win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/05\/sunday-review\/internet-pirates-will-always-win.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Interesting article<\/a> on the NY Times site (a few weeks old &#8211; sorry. Been sitting in my inbox for a little bit whilst I tried to find time for this post) about pirating online.<\/p>\n<p>I find it humorous that the video mentioned (below) uses the &#8216;cat tv&#8217; format to throw off copyright-police-engines. Now you know why, in case you&#8217;ve maybe run across one of these silly videos.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mNZUkW2UrrI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My whole analogy of pirating (instead of whack-a-mole, as mentioned in the article) is a water balloon: you squeeze one end, and the water will move to another part of the balloon. Changing the elasticity of the balloon (laws) or the hand (enforcement) won&#8217;t work. It&#8217;s content distribution (the water) that some genius, somewhere, is going to figure out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article on the NY Times site (a few weeks old &#8211; sorry. Been sitting in my inbox for a little bit whilst I tried to find time for this post) about pirating online. I find it humorous that the video mentioned (below) uses the &#8216;cat tv&#8217; format to throw off copyright-police-engines. 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