{"id":801,"date":"2004-05-20T20:53:16","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T01:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/file-sharing-killed-the-dead\/"},"modified":"2004-05-20T20:53:16","modified_gmt":"2004-05-21T01:53:16","slug":"file-sharing-killed-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/file-sharing-killed-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"file sharing killed the dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i suppose i should get back to my business-of-music rants a little more,  now that some things in this world have resolved&#8230;. and to kick that off,  i&#8217;d like to pick up on one of those painful success stories that doesn&#8217;t get enough attention.  after all, here at the meta-roj blog, we&#8217;re very often about sharing things that don&#8217;t get enough attention.<\/p>\n<p>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dead.net\/\">dead<\/a> will be appearing in virginia in a couple months &#8211; and if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tickco.com\/xml\/Tickets.asp?pid=191558\">this<\/a> is any indication, ticket sales are not too shabby.  front-row center stage tickets to this show are $600, and everything listed on the page is $100 or more.<\/p>\n<p>but how can this be?  the internet archive has a pretty sizable chunk of the whole dead history <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/audio\/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&#038;cat=Grateful%20Dead\">available for free<\/a> (1300+ shows), so who would spend $600 for a seat?<\/p>\n<p>file sharing in the extreme, that.  you don&#8217;t even have to worry about the riaa knocking down your door.<\/p>\n<p>apparently, neither <a href=\"http:\/\/www-cgi.cnn.com\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/Garcia\/\" class=\"broken_link\">death<\/a> nor giving it away can kill the dead.  i guess that makes the title of this post a bit ironic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i suppose i should get back to my business-of-music rants a little more, now that some things in this world have resolved&#8230;. and to kick that off, i&#8217;d like to pick up on one of those painful success stories that doesn&#8217;t get enough attention. after all, here at the meta-roj blog, we&#8217;re very often about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801"}],"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=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}