{"id":9994,"date":"2021-07-26T07:03:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T15:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=9994"},"modified":"2021-07-26T07:03:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T15:03:54","slug":"fucking-pirates-a-teeny-tiny-call-to-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=9994","title":{"rendered":"Fucking Pirates: A Teeny, Tiny Call to Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may have already seen this on Facebook, but if you&#8217;ve wisely sworn off that platform I&#8217;ll repeat it here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a favor to ask any US Amazon customers out there. Would you mind going over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blindsight-Annotated-Peter-Watts-ebook\/dp\/B0973QY1ZK\/ref=sr_1_1\">here<\/a> and leaving a reader review pointing out that this is a pirated edition, unauthorized by the author, and that the &#8220;annotations&#8221; consist of a couple of Wikipedia pages pasted onto the front of the manuscript? I would do it myself, but I am not allowed to post reviews on Amazon.com because I &#8220;have not met the minimum eligibility requirements to write a review&#8221; (i.e., I have not given them enough money).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have, of course, launched a copyright infringement notice through Amazon&#8217;s official channels, and Amazon is being its usual dickish self in terms of acting on it. I continue to jump through their hoops. In the meantime, though, it would be nice if potential customers could be informed that they (and I) are being ripped off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you. Apologies for the interruption. If it helps, my next blog post is likely to be about Planarians, neoblasts, and The Thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have already seen this on Facebook, but if you&#8217;ve wisely sworn off that platform I&#8217;ll repeat it here: I have a favor to ask any US Amazon customers out there. Would you mind going over here and leaving a reader review pointing out that this is a pirated edition, unauthorized by the author, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9994"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9998,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9994\/revisions\/9998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}