{"id":37,"date":"2006-04-13T22:08:04","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T05:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/13\/mickey-hates-downloaders\/"},"modified":"2006-04-13T22:08:04","modified_gmt":"2006-04-13T05:08:04","slug":"mickey-hates-downloaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Hates Downloaders."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re on the subject of the paranoid folk at Disney, it should shock maybe a few that the corporate monolith soon to consume the souls of every living being on the planet (and I LIKE Disney) hates illegal downloading.<\/p>\n<p>So much so, in fact, that they used the occasion of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsforge.com\/article.pl?sid=01\/10\/22\/1636242&#038;mode=thread\">random episode<\/a> of their series The Proud Family to send a &#8220;Stealing music is BAD!&#8221; message to all the impressionable kids out there. See, there&#8217;s this program called EZ Jackster (ooh, clever!) and kids use it to get music, but it&#8217;s free, but it&#8217;s stealing, and blah blah blah. The evil kid who turns the good kid onto the program even has a line like, &#8220;I know you are afraid I am trying to show you a world without rules.&#8221; To which the good kid of course replies, &#8220;Yes I AM! Kids need rules. And rich music artists like Metallica need more cash to wipe their ass with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can only assume that this went into production during Eisner&#8217;s reign of terror, and that Bob Iger wouldn&#8217;t be caught dead sending such a message, since he&#8217;s betting the farm that today&#8217;s kids want to buy his shit off iTunes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/3b\/Portal.gif\" alt=\"wiki\" \/><strong>WikiWikiWhack:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Walt_Disney_Company\" target=\"_blank\">The Walt Disney Company<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Iger\" target=\"_new\">Robert Iger<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re on the subject of the paranoid folk at Disney, it should shock maybe a few that the corporate monolith soon to consume the souls of every living being on the planet (and I LIKE Disney) hates illegal downloading. So much so, in fact, that they used the occasion of a random episode of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-teh-intarweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}