{"id":15493,"date":"2011-09-12T13:34:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T11:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=15493"},"modified":"2011-09-12T13:34:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T11:34:55","slug":"on-policy-making-and-profit-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/12\/on-policy-making-and-profit-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"On policy making and profit protection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TorrentFreak<\/a> runs an inspirational piece, which touches upon civil liberties, policy making, and profits of the large companies involved in movie and music making.<\/p>\n

The job of any entrepreneur is to construct a use case and a business case that allow them to make money, given the current constraints of society and technology. They do not get to dismantle civil liberties, even if they can\u2019t make money otherwise<\/strong>. That goes for Blackwater Security as well as the copyright industry as well as every other entrepreneur on the planet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

TorrentFreak runs an inspirational piece, which touches upon civil liberties, policy making, and profits of the large companies involved in movie and music making. The job of any entrepreneur is to construct a use case and a business case that allow them to make money, given the current constraints of society and technology. They do … Continue reading On policy making and profit protection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2902,1284,1336,577,400],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-15493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-civil-liberties","tag-free-speech","tag-inspiration","tag-law","tag-piracy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11212,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/01\/efforg-needs-more-pr\/","url_meta":{"origin":15493,"position":0},"title":"Eff.org needs more PR","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I've recently made a donation to Eff.org and also bought some stickers from them.\u00a0 Since I put the sticker on my laptop, I am getting this question all the time: \"What is eff.org?\".\u00a0 I even get this question from people who I thought were very familiar with EFF's work. 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