{"id":359,"date":"2013-01-15T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=359"},"modified":"2013-01-14T20:04:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T01:04:05","slug":"pirates-censors-hypocrites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2013\/01\/pirates-censors-hypocrites\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates, Censors &amp; Hypocrites!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/25.media.tumblr.com\/99c886c42974db41ac3bfc4149c0a60b\/tumblr_mgn6sjYbau1qcnn8do1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/>The <a title=\"There\u2019s No Point Shutting Down Sharing Sites\" href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2013\/01\/09\/theres-no-point-shutting-down-sharing-sites\/\">pointless lobby and laws<\/a> to protect a dying business model don&#8217;t convince anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Not even people working in the US Congress itself, since <a title=\"Congressional Offices Continue to Illegally Download Movies and TV Shows\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/blogs\/washington-whispers\/2013\/01\/14\/congress-continues-to-illegally-download-movies-and-tv-shows\">they too download movies ilegally<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In late October, someone at the U.S. House of Representatives decided to catch up on the latest season of\u00a0<em>Dexter<\/em>, illegally downloading an episode of the TV series while at a congressional office. In the days that followed, with Hurricane Sandy threatening to keep federal workers hunkered down at home, employees of Congress downloaded the 2012 mob film\u00a0<em>Lawless<\/em>, a Halloween-themed episode of\u00a0<em>The Middle<\/em>, and an episode from Season 9 of\u00a0<em>CSI: New York<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last four months, employees of the House of Representatives have illegally downloaded dozens of films and TV shows, according to a report shared with Whispers by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/scaneye.net\/\">ScanEye<\/a>, a website that tracks what IP addresses have downloaded on BitTorrent. BitTorrent is a protocol for sharing large files over the Internet. Unauthorized downloads of copyrighted material is illegal in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Whispers was able to ascertain a number of IP addresses associated with Congress using the IP geo-location website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxmind.com\/en\/geoip_demo\">MaxMind<\/a>. The report does not include IP addresses associated with every congressional office, so the number of illegal downloads may be higher.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Ohh<\/em>, this would be the sweet mother of irony if these people were prosecuted like anyone else! But I don&#8217;t know why, I got a feeling, they&#8217;re getting off the hook on this one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pointless lobby and laws to protect a dying business model don&#8217;t convince anyone. Not even people working in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[125,32,97],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-copyright","tag-double-standards","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}