{"id":706,"date":"2006-04-18T21:00:23","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2006\/04\/18\/a-brief-rant\/"},"modified":"2006-04-18T21:00:23","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T13:00:23","slug":"a-brief-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2006\/04\/18\/a-brief-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"a brief rant&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the process of resuming normal posting, but in\u00c2\u00a0the meantime: iTunes! What gives?!? The music store is like totally wrong. I had to give them a few million times more information than I would give to a bricks and mortar store, and that was to retrieve a (very welcome) gift voucher.\u00c2\u00a0Apple\u00c2\u00a0needs to rethink (quickly) what its doing or the only choices will end up being either to download music\u00c2\u00a0for free from\u00c2\u00a0bittorrent (at higher quality and available earlier) or buy it from the bricks and mortar guys. At the moment, I currently download freebies as previews and buy the disk if I want it (deleting the downloaded files on the way). I want to buy music. I&#8217;m happy to pay creators,\u00c2\u00a0middlemen and the whole crowd. Hell, I&#8217;ve been doing it since I was eight years old. Why would I stop now? But buying low quality DRMd files from a bunch of\u00c2\u00a0dumbass California hippies who want account information and such? Not ever again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the process of resuming normal posting, but in\u00c2\u00a0the meantime: iTunes! What gives?!? The music store is like totally wrong. I had to give them a few million times more information than I would give to a bricks and mortar store, and that was to retrieve a (very welcome) gift voucher.\u00c2\u00a0Apple\u00c2\u00a0needs to rethink (quickly) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2006\/04\/18\/a-brief-rant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">a brief rant&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}