{"id":1714,"date":"2007-10-04T20:18:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T20:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2007-10-04T20:18:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T20:18:06","slug":"a_civil_action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1714","title":{"rendered":"A Civil Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations, recording industry executives. You just scored a $220,000 court judgment against a single mother<\/a> who illegally downloaded some of your songs. You must be feeling pretty stoked right about now. Now everybody knows that they can’t mess with you. People are going to think twice the next time they’re tempted to grab the latest Kanye West single off of LimeWire. Maybe you should go out and celebrate by knocking down a couple old ladies as they’re crossing the street. Better yet, there are probably some stray puppies out there that could use a serious ass-kicking.<\/p>\n

You should sleep soundly tonight, secure in the knowledge that the American legal system is there to watch your back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations, recording industry executives. You just scored a $220,000 court judgment against a single mother who illegally downloaded some of your songs. You must be feeling pretty stoked right about now. Now everybody knows that they can’t mess with you. People are going to think twice the next time they’re tempted to grab the latest […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-rE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}