{"id":290,"date":"2006-03-27T14:06:33","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T14:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=290"},"modified":"2006-03-27T14:06:33","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T14:06:33","slug":"then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/03\/27\/then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Then and now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Home_taping_is_killing_music\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Home_taping_is_killing_music.jpg\" alt=\"Home_taping_is_killing_music.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voidstar.com\/node.php?id=2686\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/ipodpirate3.jpg\" alt=\"ipodpirate3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pathetic record company warning from the 1980s receives a parodic makeover for the digital age. The original tape-and-crossbones graphic was printed on the inner sleeves of vinyl albums from major labels for a brief period when the record companies were in a panic about kids swapping tapes in school playgrounds. If only they knew what was coming&#8230; The record industry didn&#8217;t collapse into ruin, of course, in fact CD sales helped them heap up even greater profits. I&#8217;m sure they say now that ruin was prevented by &#8220;effective campaigning&#8221; or some other bullshit. A friend of mine once attended a lecture by representatives from the BPI (British Phonographic Institute) at the IPM in Liverpool. After listening to them pontificate about the evils of &#8220;music theft&#8221; he asked whether any of them had copied music for personal use; they ignored his question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pathetic record company warning from the 1980s receives a parodic makeover for the digital age. The original tape-and-crossbones graphic was printed on the inner sleeves of vinyl albums from major labels for a brief period when the record companies were in a panic about kids swapping tapes in school playgrounds. If only they knew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/03\/27\/then-and-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Then and now&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}