{"id":1330,"date":"2011-11-30T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T22:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/30\/best-selling-author-barry-eisler-on-copyright\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:59","slug":"best-selling-author-barry-eisler-on-copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/30\/best-selling-author-barry-eisler-on-copyright\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Selling Author Barry Eisler On Copyright, Piracy And Why SOPA\/PIPA Are &#8216;Extremely Disturbing&#8217; | Techdirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/747034035\/best-selling-author-barry-eisler-on-copyright-piracy-and-why-sopa-pipa-are-extremely-disturbing-techdirt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/747034035\/best-selling-author-barry-eisler-on-copyright-piracy-and-why-sopa-pipa-are-extremely-disturbing-techdirt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/NDOT4IGHvqfRJpo_HxhFCDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/> I&rsquo;ve written about best-selling author Barry Eisler a few times, for his recent decisions to turn down a half million dollar publishing deal in order to focus on alternative paths to bringing his books to market (first self-publishing ebooks and&hellip; \u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20111121\/03340416853\/best-selling-author-barry-eisler-copyright-piracy-why-sopapipa-are-extremely-disturbing.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via techdirt.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; Liberties I&rsquo;ve written about best-selling author Barry Eisler a few times, for his recent decisions to turn down a half million dollar publishing deal in order to focus on alternative paths to bringing his books &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/30\/best-selling-author-barry-eisler-on-copyright\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":619,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2013\/10\/26\/head-of-nsa-blasts-reporters-for-selling-leaked\/","url_meta":{"origin":1330,"position":0},"title":"Head of NSA blasts reporters for &#8216;selling&#8217; leaked documents","author":"aslam","date":"October 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesReporters should be prevented from \u201cselling\u201d National Security Agency documents, Gen. 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