{"id":393,"date":"2003-11-26T16:34:27","date_gmt":"2003-11-26T21:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/exempting-the-entertainment-industries\/"},"modified":"2003-11-26T16:34:27","modified_gmt":"2003-11-26T21:34:27","slug":"exempting-the-entertainment-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/exempting-the-entertainment-industries\/","title":{"rendered":"exempting the entertainment industries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a big <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/yro\/03\/11\/26\/1330254.shtml?tid=103&#038;tid=141&#038;tid=187&#038;tid=188&#038;tid=99\">discussion<\/a> happening over at slashdot,  with a few choice comments from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificavc.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/26.html#a461\" class=\"broken_link\">tim oren<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/archives\/012738.php\">glenn reynolds<\/a> and the folks over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/6\/34191.html\">the register<\/a>.  the coverage already says plenty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/~hatch\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Statements.Detail&#038;PressRelease_id=215510&#038;Month=11&#038;Year=2003\">here<\/a> is the floor statement by orrin hatch.  i couldn&#8217;t find a copy of the actual text of the proposed legislation &#8211; i&#8217;m sure it will appear soon.<\/p>\n<p>anyway,  what this does is free up the entertainment industry associations so they can get on about the business of suing their customers with impunity, while their members <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/running_away_from_the_high_end.html\">dissolve <\/a> any value they think they have.<\/p>\n<p>by the way&#8230; has anyone gotten their riaa settlement check yet?  i suppose i should look for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a big discussion happening over at slashdot, with a few choice comments from tim oren, glenn reynolds and the folks over at the register. the coverage already says plenty. here is the floor statement by orrin hatch. i couldn&#8217;t find a copy of the actual text of the proposed legislation &#8211; i&#8217;m sure it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"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=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}