{"id":122,"date":"2002-12-12T20:45:09","date_gmt":"2002-12-13T01:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2002-12-12T20:45:09","modified_gmt":"2002-12-13T01:45:09","slug":"brilliant-tim-oreilly-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Tim O&#8217;Reilly essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openp2p.com\/pub\/a\/p2p\/2002\/12\/11\/piracy.html\">Piracy is progressive taxation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For most authors, their enemy is obscurity, not piracy. Piracy benefits the little guy and is an irritant to the big guys<\/li>\n<li>For publishers, piracy is a manageable cost of doing business, like shoplifting. It doesn&#8217;t kill the business &#8212; Microsoft is profitable despite warez newsgroups<\/li>\n<li>Customers will pay for good digital distribution; O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s Safari is an example<\/li>\n<li>In the world of digital distribution there will still be a role for publishers and distributors. For reasons of math and marketing, intermediaries will emerge to bridge the gap between millions of buyers and millions of sellers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And more great stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piracy is progressive taxation. For most authors, their enemy is obscurity, not piracy. Piracy benefits the little guy and is an irritant to the big guys For publishers, piracy is a manageable cost of doing business, like shoplifting. It doesn&#8217;t kill the business &#8212; Microsoft is profitable despite warez newsgroups Customers will pay for good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brilliant Tim O&#8217;Reilly essay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-1Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}