{"id":2225,"date":"2012-01-07T05:58:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T10:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2012-01-07T05:58:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T10:58:12","slug":"piracy-due-to-lack-of-legal-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/01\/07\/piracy-due-to-lack-of-legal-options","title":{"rendered":"Piracy due to lack of legal options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you give people a legal way to consume the content they want, they will pay for it. But when you make it impossible to legally consume the content they want, they will pirate it.&#8221; &#8211; Fred Wilson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avc.com\/a_vc\/2012\/01\/screwcable.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AVc+%28A+VC%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher\">#screwable<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve said this many times. The world is flat. There is no worldwide currency so you can&#8217;t use exchange rates to justify higher costs in different markets. People have friends around the world, and they&#8217;d like to talk about that episode of House with their friends worldwide after they&#8217;ve seen it. <\/p>\n<p>Give people sensible legal options. Don&#8217;t censor content (really, rely on the ratings). <\/p>\n<p>Markets in Asia today have no streaming tv\/movie content. No streaming radio. No purchasing of legal music. There is so much growth potential. If only the industry sees it. The technology is already here. Profiteers are what&#8217;s blocking progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you give people a legal way to consume the content they want, they will pay for it. But when you make it impossible to legally consume the content they want, they will pirate it.&#8221; &#8211; Fred Wilson #screwable I&#8217;ve said this many times. The world is flat. There is no worldwide currency so you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-zT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2226,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/2226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}