{"id":3120,"date":"2002-08-07T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2002-08-07T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2002-08-07T12:32:10","modified_gmt":"2002-08-07T17:32:10","slug":"straw_pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/07\/straw_pirates.html","title":{"rendered":"Straw pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glenn Reynolds has an interesting column on the real reasons Big Media is out for technical copyright protections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What they’re trying to do is to create a system that’s not so much proof against copying – a mostly impossible task anyway – as a system that’s very unfriendly to content that comes from anyone other than Big Media suppliers. It’s not about copying. It’s about competition.<\/p>\n

Which makes why folks like Biden and Hollings are busy doing everything they can to support these efforts even less justifiable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glenn Reynolds has an interesting column on the real reasons Big Media is out for technical copyright protections. What they’re trying to do is to create a system that’s not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2838,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/14\/fame_if_no_fort.html","url_meta":{"origin":3120,"position":0},"title":"Fame, if no fortune","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 14-Sep-02 3:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"After I wrote up my little blurb on DIA security, I shot a note to Glenn Reynolds at InstaPundit to tell him about it (both because it's the sort of...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"Click for larger image","src":"\/blog\/images\/instalanche2-thumb.gif","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1914,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/09\/rhetoric.html","url_meta":{"origin":3120,"position":1},"title":"Rhetoric","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-Apr-02 2:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Glenn Reynolds at InstaPundit -- in between some rather disturbing commentary about the new culture\/political war between the French-led Eurocrats and the US -- has today's (well, yesterday's) most ironic...","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4130,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/02\/the_future.html","url_meta":{"origin":3120,"position":2},"title":"The future","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 2-Feb-03 11:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"Some good thoughts from Glenn Reynolds on where we go from here in the space program. We'll bury our dead. But then we must move on. If we want to...","rel":"","context":"In "Hi-Tech"","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3047,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/19\/guns_and_the_ma.html","url_meta":{"origin":3120,"position":3},"title":"Guns and the Manner","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Aug-02 10:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"Glenn Reynolds has put up one of many interesting but hitherto-unwebbed law review articles that provides a systematic and thorough debunking of the book Arming America. 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