{"id":303,"date":"2011-04-14T14:49:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T18:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=303"},"modified":"2011-08-10T14:49:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T18:49:44","slug":"pirate-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hardly time for a proper entry today, but that&#8217;s okay: the thing most worth sharing today is a scheme to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamepron.com\/news\/2011\/04\/12\/garrys-mod-catches-pirates-the-fun-way\/\" target=\"_blank\">get software pirates to turn themselves in<\/a>.  I&#8217;m not technically savvy enough to explore the implications, but I&#8217;m human enough for the news to curl my toes with delight.<\/p>\n<p>And damned if the pirates who got burned aren&#8217;t whining about how unfairly they&#8217;ve been treated.  They don&#8217;t understand why they should be banned from playing other games on the same system after getting caught using that distributor to cheat.  They don&#8217;t understand why they should be banned from playing <em>the very game they stole<\/em>.  They don&#8217;t understand what&#8217;s wrong with stealing at all: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I can&#8217;t afford a computer game, so I&#8217;m not hurting anyone by pirating one.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  They don&#8217;t understand why claiming they can&#8217;t afford a $10 game (to go with a computer capable of effective PvP play) just earns derision.<\/p>\n<p>The limitless sense of entitlement is disgusting.  The threats of lawsuits against Garry Newman, maker of the pirate trap, for failing to deliver a product neither contracted for nor paid for lie in that terrible realm where sad and hilarious meet.<\/p>\n<p>Parallels to today&#8217;s financial institutions, convinced they are entitled to risk-free profit, and prepared to seize our assets to make good losses on a mess of their own creation, are left as an exercise to the reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardly time for a proper entry today, but that&#8217;s okay: the thing most worth sharing today is a scheme to get software pirates to turn themselves in. I&#8217;m not technically savvy enough to explore the implications, but I&#8217;m human enough for the news to curl my toes with delight. And damned if the pirates who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}