{"id":312,"date":"2002-08-23T14:46:18","date_gmt":"2002-08-24T04:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2002-08-23T14:46:18","modified_gmt":"2002-08-24T04:46:18","slug":"copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2002\/08\/23\/copyright\/","title":{"rendered":"Copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first draft of the DMCA-inspired European Union Copyright Directive has been published at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patent.gov.uk\/about\/consultations\/eccopyright\/\">http:\/\/www.patent.gov.uk\/about\/consultations\/eccopyright\/<\/a>. Forget about any old-fashioned ideas you might have about &#8220;owning&#8221; that software you bought. If you don&#8217;t like the spyware thats bundled with it, then tough. Disable it and you&#8217;re going to jail for three months, you commie.<\/p>\n<p>Details and analysis:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.eurorights.org\/issues\/eucd\/ukimpl\/critique_uk_impl.html\"><font size=\"2\">http:\/\/uk.eurorights.org\/issues\/eucd\/ukimpl\/critique_uk_impl.html<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.eurorights.org\/issues\/eucd\/ukimpl\/critique_uk_impl.html##SECTION00050000000000000000\"><font size=\"2\">http:\/\/uk.eurorights.org\/issues\/eucd\/ukimpl\/critique_uk_impl.html<\/font>##SECTION00050000000000000000<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stand.org.uk\/weblog\/\"><font size=\"2\">http:\/\/www.stand.org.uk\/weblog\/<\/font><\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first draft of the DMCA-inspired European Union Copyright Directive has been published at http:\/\/www.patent.gov.uk\/about\/consultations\/eccopyright\/. Forget about any old-fashioned ideas you might have about &#8220;owning&#8221; that software you bought. If you don&#8217;t like the spyware thats bundled with it, then tough. Disable it and you&#8217;re going to jail for three months, you commie. Details and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2002\/08\/23\/copyright\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Copyright&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}