{"id":276,"date":"2004-05-27T21:49:26","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T21:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2004-05-27T21:49:26","modified_gmt":"2004-05-27T21:49:26","slug":"leahy_shills_for_the_copyright_cartel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Leahy Shills for the Copyright Cartel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Gillmor writes about  Vermont Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/leahy.senate.gov\/\">Pat Leahy&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.siliconvalley.com\/column\/dangillmor\/archives\/010432.shtml#010432\">shilling for the copyright cartel<\/a>: Copyright Cartel Buying Another <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d108:s.02237:\">Federal Anti-Infringement Law (&#8220;Piracy Act&#8221;)<\/a>.   Evidently, Democrat Leahy needs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/politicians\/indus.asp?CID=N00009918&#038;cycle=2004\">more cash from Hollywood<\/a>.  The worse part of this insanity:  the law would require us (via the Department of Justice) to pay for tracking file sharers and filing lawsuits&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Gillmor writes about Vermont Democrat Pat Leahy&#8217;s shilling for the copyright cartel: Copyright Cartel Buying Another Federal Anti-Infringement Law (&#8220;Piracy Act&#8221;). Evidently, Democrat Leahy needs more cash from Hollywood. The worse part of this insanity: the law would require us (via the Department of Justice) to pay for tracking file sharers and filing lawsuits&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}