{"id":1398,"date":"2003-09-09T14:31:39","date_gmt":"2003-09-09T18:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/09\/my-dog-must-have-downloaded-that\/"},"modified":"2003-09-09T14:31:39","modified_gmt":"2003-09-09T18:31:39","slug":"my-dog-must-have-downloaded-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/09\/my-dog-must-have-downloaded-that\/","title":{"rendered":"My Dog Must Have Downloaded That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1031'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How does the RIAA pick these guys? Could they possibly have chosen a worse poster boy for their campaign to castigate the larcenous youth of America than a 71-year-old grandfather named Durwood Pickle? Perhaps the message they are trying to send  in the latest round of 261 suits (46 against Boston-area users, making us Subpeona Central) is that NOBODY IS SAFE. Obviously they feel that feeding their image as heartless out-of-control crypto-capitalists with a legion of blood-thirsty litigators straining at their leashes actually enhances their position vis a vis their real targets, the 60 million teens and college students burning up the bandwidth of their colleges and ISPs.  I guess if you believe in the boogeyman&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>get the lowdown from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/arts\/AP-Downloading-Music-Lawsuits.html?ex=1378440000&amp;en=296454fd6e9889c3&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND\"> the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does the RIAA pick these guys? Could they possibly have chosen a worse poster boy for their campaign to castigate the larcenous youth of America than a 71-year-old grandfather named Durwood Pickle? Perhaps the message they are trying to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/09\/my-dog-must-have-downloaded-that\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}