{"id":23708,"date":"2011-11-14T07:02:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T14:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/why-should-the-foxes-worry-if-theyre-competent-or-not.html"},"modified":"2011-11-14T13:40:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T20:40:42","slug":"why-should-the-foxes-worry-if-theyre-competent-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/why-should-the-foxes-worry-if-theyre-competent-or-not.html","title":{"rendered":"Why should the foxes worry if they&#39;re competent or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress continues to give ever-increasing powers to Big Media to protect their intellectual property, even when they demonstrate that they can&#39;t use those powers responsibly (or even legally). Why should they bother, when it costs them so little, and lawmakers are there to back their play? #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.arstechnica.net%2Fassets%2F2011%2F11%2Fthree_wise_monkeys-4ebb1e8-listing-thumb-300x169-27582-f.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2011\/11\/warner-admits-it-issues-takedowns-for-files-it-hasnt-looked-at.ars?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed:+arstechnica\/index+(Ars+Technica+-+Featured+Content)'>Warner Bros: we issued takedowns for files we never saw, didn&#39;t own copyright to<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe DMCA says copyright holders need to have a &quot;good faith belief&quot; that content is infringing before issuing a takedown request for it. Now, Warner Brothers has admitted in court that it issues takedo&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress continues to give ever-increasing powers to Big Media to protect their intellectual property, even when they demonstrate that they can&#39;t use those powers responsibly (or even legally). Why should they bother, when it costs them so little, and lawmakers are there to back their play? #ddtb Embedded Link Warner Bros: we issued takedowns for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/why-should-the-foxes-worry-if-theyre-competent-or-not.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why should the foxes worry if they&#39;re competent or not?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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}},"categories":[106,35,79,28],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-media-intellectual-property","category-media-moguls","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":23708,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":23708,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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