{"id":2836,"date":"2010-02-23T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2010-02-23T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T20:31:15","slug":"why-do-people-pirate-dvds-and-blu-ray-discs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/23\/why-do-people-pirate-dvds-and-blu-ray-discs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do people pirate DVDs and Blu-Ray discs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/GxzeV.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">this kind of crap:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pirates_vs_Paying_Customers.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Pirates_vs_Paying_Customers\" width=\"417\" height=\"428\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pirates_vs_Paying_Customers.jpg 417w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pirates_vs_Paying_Customers-146x150.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><br \/>Click to see original<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But maybe I&#8217;m misunderstanding why they all do it: instead of trying to warn me off from illegal activity, perhaps they&#8217;re actually <em>trying<\/em> to get me so irritated that I&#8217;ll go ahead and pirate it &mdash; and then they&#8217;ll swoop! It&#8217;s a society-wide legal entrapment scheme!<\/p>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/02\/18\/infographic-buying-d.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of this kind of crap: Click to see original But maybe I&#8217;m misunderstanding why they all do it: instead of trying to warn me off from illegal activity, perhaps they&#8217;re actually trying to get me so irritated that I&#8217;ll go ahead and pirate it &mdash; and then they&#8217;ll swoop! It&#8217;s a society-wide legal entrapment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28,15],"tags":[52,97,468,101],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-media","category-technology","tag-absurd","tag-advertising","tag-piracy","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-JK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2840,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}