{"id":349177,"date":"2010-02-22T10:02:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T15:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002385"},"modified":"2010-02-22T00:14:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T05:14:18","slug":"this-is-not-a-reason-not-to-pirate-dvds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/349177","title":{"rendered":"This Is Not A Reason Not To Pirate DVDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/pirate-thumb-158x118-37261.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>There is no excuse for downloading or copying DVDs illegally. It&#8217;s wrong and could land you in jail. But, as is illustrated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bspcn.com\/2010\/02\/18\/pirated-dvd-vs-legal-dvd\/\">in this BSPCN post<\/a>, studios could learn a thing or two from their swashbuckling, peg-legged counterparts in terms of streamlining.<\/p>\n<p>Pop in a DVD and you&#8217;ll have to suffer through previous, unskippable animated menus, FBI warnings and who knows what else before you get to the actual film. With a less than legal DVD, you just pop it in and watch the movie. Or so I&#8217;m told.<\/p>\n<p>Consumerists, how do you and &#8220;your friends&#8221; go about watching movies, and does the unease-of-use thing with DVDs drive &#8220;friends&#8221; to piracy?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bspcn.com\/2010\/02\/18\/pirated-dvd-vs-legal-dvd\/\">Pirated DVD vs. Legal DVD<\/a> [BSPCN]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no excuse for downloading or copying DVDs illegally. It&#8217;s wrong and could land you in jail. But, as is illustrated in this BSPCN post, studios could learn a thing or two from their swashbuckling, peg-legged counterparts in terms of streamlining. Pop in a DVD and you&#8217;ll have to suffer through previous, unskippable animated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349177","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\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}