{"id":10836,"date":"2007-11-19T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2007-11-19T00:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T00:39:00","slug":"respectfully-the-internet-is-almost-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/respectfully-the-internet-is-almost-useless\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Respectfully, the internet is almost useless.&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Respectfully, the internet is almost useless.&#8221; &#8211; Gene Simmons.<\/p>\n<p>This just goes to show how much Gene&#8217;s opinions are without any value. He might as well be giving us medical advice, he is just as qualified.<\/p>\n<p>Check out a few more great quotes from his Letters section.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;file sharing has succeeded. And the result is the end of a chance for a new band to have a chance.&#8221; &#8211; I agree, they have no chance if they try to embrace the old music business. If they are willing to evolve and try something new they can succeed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New bands don&#8217;t have a chance or an industry to support them. And the same people who love the music, killed it.&#8221; &#8211; They have a new industry to support them, and they have their fans &#8212; if they treat their fans with respect and don&#8217;t threaten to sue all of them. Don&#8217;t put the blame on the fans I am sure there are some old, high payed record executives who have some fault.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact is, an entire generation has decided to steal the music and the result is, over a million people are losing their jobs in the record industry. Literally.&#8221; &#8211; Again, I would love to know where this over a million lost jobs comes from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Respectfully, the internet is almost useless.&#8221; &#8211; Gene Simmons. This just goes to show how much Gene&#8217;s opinions are without any value. He might as well be giving us medical advice, he is just as qualified. Check out a few more great quotes from his Letters section. &#8220;file sharing has succeeded. And the result is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[132,51,78],"tags":[92,41,9],"class_list":["post-10836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kiss-2","category-music","category-tech","tag-gene-simmons","tag-kiss","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}