{"id":41575,"date":"2009-11-13T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=124018"},"modified":"2009-11-13T14:00:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T19:00:40","slug":"mpaa-has-entire-town%e2%80%99s-municipal-wi-fi-shut-down-over-single-piracy-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/41575","title":{"rendered":"MPAA has entire town\u2019s municipal Wi-Fi shut down over single piracy allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s getting harder and harder to be surprised about the MPAA<\/A>’s silly tactics. So, surprise! The MPAA has successfully shut down an Ohio town’s municipal Wi-Fi network<\/A> because one person was caught illegally downloading a movie. You know, peers and seeders and all that. <\/p>\n

The Wi-Fi network was set up around the Coshocton County Courthouse located in central-ish Ohio. The network has been up and running for about five yeas now, and serves up to 100 people on a busy day. (Not that I have any idea of what would cause such a commotion in the town!)<\/p>\n

The town’s commissioner said: \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that one person ruins it for those who use the service legitimately.\u201d Yes, and when some maniac stabs another person we confiscate everyone’s kitchen knives. Or when a drunk driver kills an innocent motorist the government comes around and takes away everyone’s car. <\/p>\n

Collective punishment<\/A>, anyone?<\/p>\n

The MPAA’s nonsense really isn’t going to be challenged until our elected officials have an understanding of basic technology, which I don’t think will happen any time soon.<\/p>\n

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It’s getting harder and harder to be surprised about the MPAA’s silly tactics. So, surprise! The MPAA has successfully shut down an Ohio town’s municipal Wi-Fi network because one person was caught illegally downloading a movie. You know, peers and seeders and all that. The Wi-Fi network was set up around the Coshocton County Courthouse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41575","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=41575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}