{"id":108,"date":"2008-02-22T12:45:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T12:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/02\/22\/copyright-infringement-is-different-from-theft\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T12:45:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T12:45:05","slug":"copyright-infringement-is-different-from-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/02\/22\/copyright-infringement-is-different-from-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Copyright infringement is different from theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the media industries like to confuse copyright infringement  with theft*, it&#8217;s not the same thing. The Los Angeles Times has a nice article covering the subject: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-oew-healey18feb18,0,5092348.story\">File \u2018sharing\u2019 or \u2018stealing\u2019?<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>* For instance, the annoying <em>would you steal&#8230;<\/em> trailers, at the start of DVDs.<br \/>\nWhilst on the subject, the fact that you cant skip these messages about not viewing the DVD on an oil rig, etc. is a fine example of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_rights_management\" title=\"Digital Restrictions Management\">DRM<\/a> &#8211; which should be enough reason for anyone to conclude that DRM is a Bad Thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the media industries like to confuse copyright infringement with theft*, it&#8217;s not the same thing. The Los Angeles Times has a nice article covering the subject: File \u2018sharing\u2019 or \u2018stealing\u2019?. * For instance, the annoying would you steal&#8230; trailers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/02\/22\/copyright-infringement-is-different-from-theft\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,12,39,33,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freebies","category-isthmus","category-mosaic","category-quickies","category-society-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}