{"id":264,"date":"2009-10-14T07:46:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T13:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2010-09-26T13:03:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T19:03:18","slug":"and-still-theres-trouble-in-river-city-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2009\/10\/14\/and-still-theres-trouble-in-river-city-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"And Still There&#8217;s Trouble in River City&#8230; sort of."},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>It&#8217;s the same old same old &#8211; human cry from those that have because they fear they might have to share. A Well-written article worth the time to read.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-item-info\">\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2009\/10\/100-years-of-big-content-fearing-technologyin-its-own-words.ars\">100 years of Big Content fearing technology\u2014in its own words<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>For the last hundred years, rightsholders have fretted about everything from the player piano to the VCR to digital TV to Napster. Here are those objections, in Big Content&#8217;s own words.<\/p>\n<div>By            <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/authors\/nate-anderson\/\">Nate Anderson<\/a> | Last updated <abbr title=\"2009-10-11T22:00:00-06:00\">October 11, 2009 10:00 PM CT<\/abbr><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-264'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(264);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(264);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(264);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>It&#8217;s the same old same old &#8211; human cry from those that have because they fear they might have to share. A Well-written article worth the time to read. 100 years of Big Content fearing technology\u2014in its own words For &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2009\/10\/14\/and-still-theres-trouble-in-river-city-sort-of\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/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":[14],"tags":[44,41,25],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-american-society","tag-education","tag-trouble-in-river-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-4g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2008\/05\/17\/videogames-ya-got-trouble\/","url_meta":{"origin":264,"position":0},"title":"Videogames \u2013 Ya Got Trouble!~","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"May 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Some years ago I was at a conference where Dmitri Williams was talking about the social history of videogames. 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