{"id":1231,"date":"2008-09-12T14:44:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T18:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2008-09-12T14:44:28","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T18:44:28","slug":"must-not-get-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/12\/must-not-get-upset\/","title":{"rendered":"Must not get upset…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Wilson<\/a> has been goading me all week long with links about the music industry and how stupid it’s being. \u00c2\u00a0He’s trying to get me to go off on a rant here, I think he secretly likes it. \u00c2\u00a0I won’t oblige him though, because I have become oblivious to the thrashings of a dying business. \u00c2\u00a0He would love nothing more than for me to link to thi<\/a>s profanity-laced tirade about how most music sucks these days, and no wonder people don’t want to pay for it, because it’s exactly the sentiment I spout most often. \u00c2\u00a0No sir, I won’t link to it. \u00c2\u00a0I’m above that. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

He also wants me to link to thi<\/a>s article about the sheer stupidity of killing Muxtape<\/a> (a service I literally joined the day it went down due to RIAA intervention). \u00c2\u00a0I have long struggled with the ethics of music sharing between friends, new music discovery and the like. \u00c2\u00a0Muxtape sort of fixed that, really. \u00c2\u00a0It was a way of making a “mixed tape” for your friends (or anybody) of music you liked or thought went well together. \u00c2\u00a0You could stream the music from the website, but not download it (or not download it easily). \u00c2\u00a0I thought it was brilliant, and was looking forward to having a look-see, but lo when I got home after signing up at work, the web site was down due to legal action. \u00c2\u00a0The article goes on and on about the whole string of dumb moves that seem specifically engineered to drive away paying customers, or to treat us like criminals.<\/p>\n

Or, that’s what the article probably says, if I read it. \u00c2\u00a0Which I didn’t, of course. \u00c2\u00a0Because I’m above that now. \u00c2\u00a0Well, almost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wilson has been goading me all week long with links about the music industry and how stupid it’s being. \u00c2\u00a0He’s trying to get me to go off on a rant here, I think he secretly likes it. \u00c2\u00a0I won’t oblige … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupidity","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-jR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}