{"id":1408,"date":"2005-05-27T19:34:54","date_gmt":"2005-05-27T19:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2005-05-27T19:34:54","modified_gmt":"2005-05-27T19:34:54","slug":"our_tax_dollars_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1408","title":{"rendered":"Our Tax Dollars at Work: Saving Hollywood&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interesting-people.org\/archives\/interesting-people\/200505\/msg00270.html\">The Motion Picture Association of America<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland Security today announced that they have shut down one of the world&rsquo;s largest BitTorrent websites, Elite Torrents. Carrying out what is known as Operation D-Elite, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executed search warrants against prominent members in Elite Torrents&rsquo; membership. Elite Torrents was one of the first peer to peer networks to post an illegal copy of Star Wars: Episode III &#8211; Revenge of the Sith before the movie officially opened in theaters last Thursday.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I&#8217;m not making this up&#8230;..   Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elitetorrents.org\/\">Elite Torrents<\/a> and check out the home page, which now features US DOJ and DHS logos&#8230;.<BR><Br><br \/>\nCopyright is important to some fair degree (Congress, via Hollywood money has greatly distorted the copyright law&#8230;).   However, spending our tax dollars to save the latest Star Wars film is simply absurd.   Let&#8217;s use some of that money for education or debt reduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Motion Picture Association of America: The U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland Security today announced that they have shut down one of the world&rsquo;s largest BitTorrent websites, Elite Torrents. Carrying out what is known as Operation D-Elite, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executed search warrants against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}