{"id":837,"date":"2012-01-23T12:43:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T17:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/837"},"modified":"2012-10-09T10:03:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T15:03:28","slug":"why-history-needs-software-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/837\/why-history-needs-software-piracy","title":{"rendered":"Why History Needs Software Piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2012\/01\/23\/why-history-needs-software-piracy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/technologizer\/piracy_small.jpg\" alt=\"Why History Needs Software Piracy\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>Over at Technologizer, I&#8217;ve written an opinion piece that argues <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2012\/01\/23\/why-history-needs-software-piracy\/\" target=\"_blank\">why history needs software piracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I had the idea for this piece a few years ago, so it&#8217;s nice to finally put my thoughts into written form &#8212; especially at a time when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/832\" target=\"_blank\">public debate over digital piracy&#8217;s role<\/a> has reached a new high.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t claim to be laying down the final word on the subject; instead, I view my piece as the beginning of a broader discussion about piracy&#8217;s role in the study of history.  I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Technologizer, I&#8217;ve written an opinion piece that argues why history needs software piracy. I had the idea for this piece a few years ago, so it&#8217;s nice to finally put my thoughts into written form &#8212; especially at a time when public debate over digital piracy&#8217;s role has reached a new high. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,37,7,13,21,9,8,10],"tags":[243,88,242,244,245],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-collecting","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming","category-technology-commentary","category-computers","tag-digital-preservation","tag-freelance-work","tag-piracy","tag-software-preservation","tag-technologizer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}