{"id":671620,"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.com\/index\/671620","title":{"rendered":"This Is Not A Reason Not To Pirate DVDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/pirate-thumb-158x118-37261.jpg?w=780\">         <\/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":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-671620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2OIA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671620","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\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}