{"id":604852,"date":"2009-11-11T07:13:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T12:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091110\/0744136875.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-11T07:13:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T12:13:36","slug":"mpaa-gets-town-to-turn-off-free-muni-wifi-over-single-unauthorized-movie-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/604852","title":{"rendered":"MPAA Gets Town To Turn Off Free Muni-WiFi Over Single Unauthorized Movie Download"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan alerts us to the news that the free muni-WiFi system used around the Coshocton\u2019s County Courthouse in Northern Ohio was <a href=\"http:\/\/freakbits.com\/single-movie-download-forces-wi-fi-network-shutdown-1110\" >shut down over a complaint by the MPAA<\/a> over a single unauthorized movie download.  Amazingly, rather than admit that perhaps that was going a bit too far in punishing everyone in that town over a single individual&#8217;s usage, the MPAA couldn&#8217;t resist the opportunity to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coshoctontribune.com\/article\/20091109\/UPDATES01\/91109015\" >complain about the evils of movie piracy<\/a> again.  The MPAA doesn&#8217;t seem concerned at all about the collateral damage, and just thinks that it&#8217;s a good opportunity to push ahead with its misguided complaint against file sharing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091110\/0744136875.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091110\/0744136875.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091110\/0744136875&#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=fdd6d6e610d16988360bac754cb1dbb7&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=fdd6d6e610d16988360bac754cb1dbb7&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=e8nIan16R0s:R7sYiav0HsU:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=e8nIan16R0s:R7sYiav0HsU:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=e8nIan16R0s:R7sYiav0HsU: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\/e8nIan16R0s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan alerts us to the news that the free muni-WiFi system used around the Coshocton\u2019s County Courthouse in Northern Ohio was shut down over a complaint by the MPAA over a single unauthorized movie download. Amazingly, rather than admit that perhaps that was going a bit too far in punishing everyone in that town over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xlG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}