{"id":522,"date":"2006-02-24T12:07:02","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T18:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/a-billion-suckers\/"},"modified":"2006-02-24T12:07:02","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T18:07:02","slug":"a-billion-suckers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/a-billion-suckers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Billion Suckers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer, Flickr dude extraordinaire, Thomas Hawk <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Thomas Hawk and iTunes suckers\" href=\"http:\/\/thomashawk.com\/2006\/02\/itunes-one-billion-suckers-served.html\">weighs in<\/a> on Apple&#8217;s announcement of the billionth iTunes download. I think he&#8217;s right on and his point is the reason why I&#8217;m still uneasy about embracing iTunes. I posted <a title=\"No DRM for me, thanks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/cant-we-all-just-get-along\/\">twice about this<\/a> <a title=\"Downloadable Music and DRM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/downloadable-music-and-drm\/\">in the past<\/a> and, despite actually <a title=\"iTunes Virgin No Longer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/itunes-virgin-no-longer\/\">buying a song from iTunes in August<\/a>, I&#8217;ve only bought one other song since. Both purchases were ones that I&#8217;d consider throwaways. If I really want a full album, I&#8217;m sticking with CDs. Of course, going that route doesn&#8217;t avoid the DRM nightmare as evidenced by the<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sony DRM debacle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/02\/15\/sony_drm_debacle_rou.html\"> Sony DRM debacle<\/a> that continues to make news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer, Flickr dude extraordinaire, Thomas Hawk weighs in on Apple&#8217;s announcement of the billionth iTunes download. I think he&#8217;s right on and his point is the reason why I&#8217;m still uneasy about embracing iTunes. I posted twice about this in the past and, despite actually buying a song from iTunes in August, I&#8217;ve only bought <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/a-billion-suckers\/' 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-522","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-8q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","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=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}