{"id":3107,"date":"2014-09-20T09:38:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T14:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/?p=3107"},"modified":"2014-09-20T09:44:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T14:44:35","slug":"big-media-doesnt-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/big-media-doesnt-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Big media doesn&#8217;t get it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3112\" style=\"padding: 0 6px 6px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/faces-on-black-background-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"faces-on-black-background\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/faces-on-black-background-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/faces-on-black-background.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Techdirt<\/a> many cases where fighting a problem by trying to keep people out just won&#8217;t work because of the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I tweeted<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a thought that says Hollywood doesn&#8217;t have a clue how to stay relevant <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/4wYmmHmaSX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ow.ly\/BHT0I<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yesterday was also <a title=\"Lessons of Talk Like A Pirate Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2006\/09\/20\/lessons-of-talk-like-a-pirate-day\/\">*Talk Like A Pirate Day* <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;m looking for the Pitt game and I see<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3109\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Clipboard01-300x16.jpg\" alt=\"football\" width=\"300\" height=\"16\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Clipboard01-300x16.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Clipboard01.jpg 571w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See that little key? It means that unless you have a cable subscription you can&#8217;t watch. <strong>Idiots!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Their thinking is they get so much money from the cable subscribers they can&#8217;t afford to let us pirates in. <strong>Arrrgghh!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I say they can&#8217;t afford not to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cable subscriptions are going down<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re getting far less from their ads then they could already.<br \/>\nThis is the Internet, after all, not cable. Visitors can interact.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re making people mad who don&#8217;t have cable and can&#8217;t get around this block.<br \/>\nWait, never mind, there aren&#8217;t any of those<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read on Techdirt many cases where fighting a problem by trying to keep people out just won&#8217;t work because of the Internet. Yesterday I tweeted Here&#8217;s a thought that says Hollywood doesn&#8217;t have a clue how to stay relevant ow.ly\/BHT0I Yesterday was also *Talk Like A Pirate Day* Today I&#8217;m looking for the Pitt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3107"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3115,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}