{"id":121,"date":"2007-03-23T10:59:53","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T15:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2007\/03\/23\/friday-morning\/"},"modified":"2007-03-23T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T16:02:43","slug":"friday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Friday Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;My second thought is that I choose not to read free downloads because it seems in almost every case to be against the wishes of the creators or the people to whom they&#8217;ve ceded those decision-making rights. I&#8217;m not sure when that stopped mattering. I&#8217;m also pretty certain that second-guessing this, deciding you know what&#8217;s better for someone else&#8217;s creation, is kind of arrogant.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><strong>&#8211; Tom Spurgeon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/please_stop_downloading_now_please\/\" target=\"_blank\">ComicsReporter.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for summing that up for me Tom, I&#8217;d been meaning to get to that for a little while.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say though, I&#8217;m a bit of a hypocrite in this regard. I&#8217;m not morally or ethically opposed to reading stuff that simply isn&#8217;t available for me to buy, the grey-area material like <em>Scanlations<\/em> and <em>Legally Contentious Material That Is Unlikely To Be Published<\/em>. But yeah, this week&#8217;s <em>She-Hulk<\/em>? When the dude asks you to actually spend money on it, if you like it? That&#8217;s a pretty easy choice for me. I know too many creative people for whom even a few hundred dollars of lost sales is <em>a rent cheque<\/em> for them, a rent cheque that they desperately need.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My second thought is that I choose not to read free downloads because it seems in almost every case to be against the wishes of the creators or the people to whom they&#8217;ve ceded those decision-making rights. I&#8217;m not sure when that stopped mattering. I&#8217;m also pretty certain that second-guessing this, deciding you know what&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=121\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday Morning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}