{"id":7844,"date":"2011-02-17T07:15:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T11:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=7844"},"modified":"2011-02-17T08:19:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T12:19:22","slug":"the-pirates-of-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/02\/17\/the-pirates-of-oz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pirates of Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/02\/17\/aussies_are_pirates\/\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, piracy in Australia has become the biggest industry: one third of all Australians are accused of piracy in the last twelve months.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The study, released by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft, claims that piracy sucks $A1.37bn out of the Australian economy.<\/p>\n<p>Direct effects claimed by AFACT amounted to $A575m, the study claims &mdash; including $A225m attributed to \u201csecondary piracy\u201d, in which an individual either \u201cviews or borrows\u201d pirated material (presumably whether or not the viewer knows the full legal status of what they\u2019re watching).<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>The economic multiplier effects, for those willing to get past the press release, include reduced spending on recreation, clothing, housing and household goods. So, freetards, hang your heads in shame: not only were more than 6,000 jobs lost due to piracy, but the victims of your crime are now homeless, naked, hungry and bored.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent study, piracy in Australia has become the biggest industry: one third of all Australians are accused of piracy in the last twelve months. The study, released by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft, claims that piracy sucks $A1.37bn out of the Australian economy. Direct effects claimed by AFACT amounted to $A575m, [&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":[331,28,15],"tags":[52,135,122,200,468],"class_list":["post-7844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-media","category-technology","tag-absurd","tag-copyright","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-piracy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-22w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844","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=7844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7845,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions\/7845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}