{"id":31,"date":"2004-02-28T23:27:37","date_gmt":"2004-02-29T04:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/?p=31"},"modified":"2004-02-28T23:27:37","modified_gmt":"2004-02-29T04:27:37","slug":"ah-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/2004\/02\/28\/ah-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, Capitalism!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I received a letter from some Compact Disc MAP Antitrust Litigation Administrator from Faribault,MN.  I was shocked that this piece of mail included a personal check and a short explanation as to my receiving said check from a <b>MASSIVE<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musiccdsettlement.com\/english\/default.htm\" target=\"_top\">antitrust case<\/a> that was brought against the <a href=\"http:\/\/RIAA.org\" target=\"_top\">Music Industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  What a joke.  After waiting a year and purchasing numerous &#8216;fixed&#8217; CDs in my life, I finally get a payment for their price-fixing ways.  And these scum wanna sue the same citizens that enjoy the mp3 and file sharing craze?  What hypocrites!  Screw the music industry.  This check that I cashed further proves the stupidity of their shady industry and the cronies that are playing their ancient games in boardrooms while technology flys right by. <\/p>\n<p>  To show my disgust, I gave my money to the Indians.  I think they always could use the profits from the Music Industry to maybe start putting up a gambling establishment or two.  I believe it&#8217;s in the Constitution somewhere.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">[Listening to:  Patty Loveless &#8211; I&#8217;m That Kind Of Girl &#8211;  (3:03)]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I received a letter from some Compact Disc MAP Antitrust Litigation Administrator from Faribault,MN. I was shocked that this piece of mail included a personal check and a short explanation as to my receiving said check from a MASSIVE antitrust case that was brought against the Music Industry. What a joke. After waiting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}