{"id":486,"date":"2002-03-22T09:44:04","date_gmt":"2002-03-22T17:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/22\/copies-are-evil\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T07:44:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:44:08","slug":"copies-are-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/22\/copies-are-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Copies are evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16348,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wired.com\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/0,1283,51245-2,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20051115153317\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.wired.com:80\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/0,1283,51245-2,00.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 06:28:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 11:22:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 05:16:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 12:18:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 12:18:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16349,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2002_03_01_archive.html#75028860&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110711010315\\\/http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2002_03_01_archive.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 06:28:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 11:22:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 05:16:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 05:16:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Aw, crud. Republican Alaskan senator Ted Stevens has joined the (if you&#8217;ll excuse me) idiots backing a bill that would ban the sale of <em>all<\/em> electronic devices without embedded copy-protection chips, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/politics\/0,1283,51245-2,00.html\" title=\"Anti-Copy bill hits D.C.\">this WIRED story<\/a>. This is a Bad Thing, for reasons which Cory makes clear over at <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2002_03_01_archive.html#75028860\" title=\"The Anti-Mammal Dinosaur Protection Act\">Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aw, crud. Republican Alaskan senator Ted Stevens has joined the (if you&#8217;ll excuse me) idiots backing a bill that would ban the sale of all electronic devices without embedded copy-protection chips, according to this WIRED story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}