{"id":306429,"date":"2010-02-11T07:51:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T12:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100210\/1137578112.shtml"},"modified":"2010-02-11T07:51:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T12:51:16","slug":"blockbuster-blames-piracy-rather-than-bad-strategy-for-bankruptcy-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/306429","title":{"rendered":"Blockbuster Blames &#8216;Piracy&#8217; Rather Than Bad Strategy For Bankruptcy In Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/profile.php?u=paperbag\">paperbag<\/a> was the first of a whole bunch of you to send in the news of Blockbuster declaring bankruptcy in Portugal and claiming that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/02\/10\/blockbuster-files-for-bankruptcy-in-portugal-blames-internet-pi\/\" >it&#8217;s all the fault of those darn kids and their downloading<\/a>.  Well, more specifically, it blames the government for not doing enough to stop the sun from rising every morning&#8230; I mean, from stopping people from engaging in unauthorized file trading online.  This is just an excuse for a company that failed to execute.  The number of folks accessing unauthorized movies online is still a blip, and almost certainly had little impact on Blockbuster&#8217;s bottom line.  The simple fact is that Blockbuster, worldwide, has done a really poor job of adapting to a changing world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100210\/1137578112.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100210\/1137578112.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100210\/1137578112&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=f3f72376ec1f59e1fe0b868a889c5442&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=f3f72376ec1f59e1fe0b868a889c5442&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=3o0AMCsjoac:bPAdF7h59ak:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=3o0AMCsjoac:bPAdF7h59ak:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=3o0AMCsjoac:bPAdF7h59ak:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/3o0AMCsjoac\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>paperbag was the first of a whole bunch of you to send in the news of Blockbuster declaring bankruptcy in Portugal and claiming that it&#8217;s all the fault of those darn kids and their downloading. Well, more specifically, it blames the government for not doing enough to stop the sun from rising every morning&#8230; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}