{"id":200,"date":"2004-04-17T21:37:11","date_gmt":"2004-04-17T21:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=200"},"modified":"2004-04-17T21:37:11","modified_gmt":"2004-04-17T21:37:11","slug":"battle_of_information_ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Information &#038; Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnutella.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:soOWFsZMexkJ:www.logiclinux.com\/img\/escritorio\/gnutella.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/04\/17\/opinion\/17SAT3.html?ex=1397620800&#038;en=6e9d6d9127d6d267&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">Verlyn Klinkenborg nicely summarizes<\/a> recent news in the recording industry&#8217;s battle against file sharing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>But this isn&#8217;t just a legal battle, of course. It&#8217;s a battle of information and ideas. A new book from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\">Lawrence Lessig<\/a> called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-culture.cc\/\">Free Culture<\/a>&#8221; makes a forceful, cogent defense of many forms of file sharing. And ? perhaps worst of all from the industry&#8217;s perspective ? a new academic study prepared by professors at Harvard and the University of North Carolina concludes, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1027_3-5181562.html\">Downloads have an effect on sales<\/a> which is statistically indistinguishable from zero.&#8221; This directly counters recording industry claims that place nearly all the blame for declining CD sales on illegal file sharing.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verlyn Klinkenborg nicely summarizes recent news in the recording industry&#8217;s battle against file sharing: But this isn&#8217;t just a legal battle, of course. It&#8217;s a battle of information and ideas. A new book from Lawrence Lessig called &#8220;Free Culture&#8221; makes a forceful, cogent defense of many forms of file sharing. And ? perhaps worst of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23,4,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"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=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}