{"id":1435,"date":"2005-06-08T00:02:37","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T00:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2005-06-08T00:02:37","modified_gmt":"2005-06-08T00:02:37","slug":"free_culture_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"Free Culture: Isenberg on The Star Wars Money Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/isen.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/calling-george-lucas-back-from-dark.html\">David Isenberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>So here is the question which you should be asking yourself. If you released full digital copies of all of the Star Wars films &#8212; with no DRM &#8212; allowing anyone to duplicate and distribute to their hearts contents&#8230; would sales in the toys, video games, and publishing categories increase by enough to offset the loss in sales from video and DVD?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Isenberg: So here is the question which you should be asking yourself. If you released full digital copies of all of the Star Wars films &#8212; with no DRM &#8212; allowing anyone to duplicate and distribute to their hearts contents&#8230; would sales in the toys, video games, and publishing categories increase by enough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435"}],"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=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}