{"id":197598,"date":"2008-01-23T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/att-the-borg-is-back\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T22:34:00","slug":"att-the-borg-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/att-the-borg-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T:  The Borg is Back."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T sells you bandwidth, and now they want to charge the people from whom you download <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">a second time<\/span> for the privilidge of using the wires that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">you have already paid for<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>They are claiming that they want to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080123\/ap_on_hi_te\/world_forum_at_t;_ylt=AgHWOC1_bkERXZnTdmzbf6RI2ocA\">help crack down on copyright infringement<\/a>, but let&#8217;s be clear, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">this is a lie<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>They want the RIAA and MPAA to support their efforts, so that later, they can <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">charge<\/span> the RIAA&#8217;s and MPAA&#8217;s clients for selling AT&amp;T customers online music and movies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/msaroff\/Moo\/photo#5158781643624940818\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.google.com\/msaroff\/R5esko4SBRI\/AAAAAAAAASQ\/pYkqG1g3aBg\/s400\/laughin_lily_tomlin.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>We don&#8217;t care. We don&#8217;t have to. (snort) <b>We&#8217;re the Phone Company<\/b>!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T sells you bandwidth, and now they want to charge the people from whom you download a second time for the privilidge of using the wires that you have already paid for. They are claiming that they want to help crack down on copyright infringement, but let&#8217;s be clear, this is a lie. They want &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1134,1109,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-copyright","category-ip","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}