{"id":212,"date":"2004-06-21T20:40:19","date_gmt":"2004-06-22T04:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/to-the-5-fair-uses\/"},"modified":"2004-06-21T20:40:19","modified_gmt":"2004-06-22T04:40:19","slug":"to-the-5-fair-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/to-the-5-fair-uses\/","title":{"rendered":"To the 5 fair uses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted <a href=\"\/blog\/archive\/cant-we-all-just-get-along\">my complaints<\/a> about the state of online music vendors late last year. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craphound.com\">Cory Doctorow<\/a>, sci-fi author and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\">EFF<\/a> spokesperson,  recently gave a <a href=\"http:\/\/craphound.com\/msftdrm.txt\">really good talk<\/a> about some of the issues surrounding this at Microsoft. He explains the background and issues very clearly, I think. I decided to post this as the discussion list for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff-austin.org\">EFF-Austin<\/a> got its most lively traffic in months over the DRM measures that may or may not be included on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00021LRWM\/thechunk-20\">new Beastie Boys CD<\/a>. No official word on their site, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beastieboys.com\/bbs\/showthread.php?t=20219\">this post<\/a> in their forum and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/06\/11\/new_beasties_disc_ha.html \">response to the BoingBoing post<\/a> seem to say that it doesn&#8217;t affect the US or UK release and that The Boys didn&#8217;t have a choice in the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Either way, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m all that interested in the new album. I was disappointed with Hello Nasty and only liked slightly more of Ill Communication. The Boy is a fan of the new single, but when given the opportunity to buy the new CD for $9.99 at Best Buy, I passed.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, their site has a note indicating that it&#8217;s under construction, but it&#8217;s pretty crappy. The information is all over the place and somewhat incoherent. If I were them, I&#8217;d have a link about the copy protection on the homepage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted my complaints about the state of online music vendors late last year. Cory Doctorow, sci-fi author and EFF spokesperson, recently gave a really good talk about some of the issues surrounding this at Microsoft. He explains the background and issues very clearly, I think. I decided to post this as the discussion list <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/to-the-5-fair-uses\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-3q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}