{"id":43,"date":"2003-03-28T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-28T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=43"},"modified":"2003-03-28T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-28T19:38:00","slug":"obscurity-is-a-far-greater-threat-to-authorscreators-than-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors\/creators than piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim O'Reilly wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openp2p.com\/pub\/a\/p2p\/2002\/12\/11\/piracy.html\" title=\"Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution (11 Dec 2002)\">an essay<\/a><br \/>\non the value of online file sharing without the need for onerous<br \/>\ndigital restrictions (aka Digital Rights Management) or draconian<br \/>\n\"intellectual property\" laws (eg. DMCA).<\/p>\n<p>Below are the 7 lessons (which he discusses in detail in the essay):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.<\/li>\n<li>Piracy is progressive taxation <\/li>\n<li>Customers want to do the right thing, if they can. <\/li>\n<li>Shoplifting is a bigger threat than piracy.<\/li>\n<li>File sharing networks don't threaten book, music, or film publishing. They threaten existing publishers. <\/li>\n<li>\"Free\" is eventually replaced by a higher-quality paid service <\/li>\n<li>There's more than one way to do it. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim O'Reilly wrote an essay on the value of online file sharing without the need for onerous digital restrictions (aka Digital Rights Management) or draconian \"intellectual property\" laws (eg. DMCA). Below are the 7 lessons (which he discusses in detail in the essay): Obscurity is <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=43\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}