{"id":1044,"date":"2007-03-21T15:27:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T21:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2007-03-21T15:29:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T21:29:21","slug":"even-when-you-try-to-do-the-right-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"Even when you try to do the right thing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1044\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Follow the link below and read the story of one music lover who tried to follow the rules and finally was treated so poorly by the music companies he finally changed his tune.  If the record companies don&#8217;t figure this out soon, there will be a large portion of their customers who will refuse to do business with them ever again. This is a Bitterman Must Read.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/consumer\/drm\/how-i-became-a-music-pirate-245644.php\">How I Became A Music Pirate &#8211; Consumerist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/rockrap.com\/\">rockrap.com<\/a> for forwarding this to me!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow the link below and read the story of one music lover who tried to follow the rules and finally was treated so poorly by the music companies he finally changed his tune. If the record companies don&#8217;t figure this out soon, there will be a large portion of their customers who will refuse to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[28,3,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peNcU-gQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}