{"id":562,"date":"2005-01-24T23:06:19","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T04:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2005\/01\/24\/watch-im-going-to-make-intellectual-property-activism-cute\/"},"modified":"2005-01-24T23:06:19","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T04:06:19","slug":"watch-im-going-to-make-intellectual-property-activism-cute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/01\/24\/watch-im-going-to-make-intellectual-property-activism-cute\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch, I&#8217;m going to make intellectual property activism cute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/ipaction.org\/\" title=\"Now cover your left eye.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/images\/ipac_friends.gif\" alt=\"Because friends don't let friends elect legislators who support draconian intellectual property law while neglecting the public's rights and the social benefits of fostering innovation.\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so it depends on your perception of &#8220;cute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty much sold on iPAC now, and I&#8217;d send them money if I hadn&#8217;t already spent it on tsunamis.  Even if you don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s funny, though, surely you can show respect for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downhillbattle.org\/\" title=\"Like punk music, only not as boring.\">Downhill Soldiers<\/a>, who actually made good on their promise and sent the RIAA and MPAA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downhillbattle.org\/coal\/\" title=\"First pictures I've seen of the humans involved in Downhill Battle, actually.\">1558 pieces of coal<\/a> for a belated Christmas present.  Wildly pointless as a gesture, but it sent some money toward the good guys listed on the left.  I am a sucker for goofy nonsense acts of protest, largely because the coal thing is something I could totally see the <acronym title=\"Don't worry, you're not supposed to understand.\">DBC<\/acronym> pulling off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so it depends on your perception of &#8220;cute.&#8221; I&#8217;m pretty much sold on iPAC now, and I&#8217;d send them money if I hadn&#8217;t already spent it on tsunamis. Even if you don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s funny, though, surely you can show respect for the Downhill Soldiers, who actually made good on their promise and sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mild-lunacy","category-obsessions","category-plugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}