{"id":111,"date":"2003-09-03T11:59:03","date_gmt":"2003-09-03T16:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/this-is-the-thanks-they-get\/"},"modified":"2003-09-03T11:59:03","modified_gmt":"2003-09-03T16:59:03","slug":"this-is-the-thanks-they-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/this-is-the-thanks-they-get\/","title":{"rendered":"this is the thanks they get?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\">larry lessig<\/a> has given us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/blog\/archives\/001451.shtml\" class=\"broken_link\">yet another<\/a> interesting compare-and-contrast perspective on what is important in america. the comparison is not,  i think, something most people would put together, so this is an interesting insight into how mr. lessig thinks (at least, it&#8217;s interesting to me).<\/p>\n<p>i originally thought i&#8217;d have some thoughts suggesting this was yet more evidence that we&#8217;re all in the wrong business, and crime does pay, but then i ended up thinking a bit more (dangerous thing to do&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve followed larry&#8217;s writing, and occasionally chimed in with random thoughts, but this gives me a hook to hang some of my work on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>finally, one thought that struck me was the &#8220;actual damages&#8221; from the my.mp3.com concept should be, by my calculation about <em>negative $750,000<\/em>.  this is based on the assumption that the 50,000 cd&#8217;s purchased by mp3 were purchases that would not be made if the service did not exist (see larry&#8217;s post for an explanation of the mechanics of my.mp3.com), and a very reasonable $15 per cd average price.<\/p>\n<p>i can&#8217;t begin to tell you what i&#8217;d do to the music industry with $750,000&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>larry lessig has given us yet another interesting compare-and-contrast perspective on what is important in america. the comparison is not, i think, something most people would put together, so this is an interesting insight into how mr. lessig thinks (at least, it&#8217;s interesting to me). i originally thought i&#8217;d have some thoughts suggesting this was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}