{"id":155,"date":"2011-09-23T10:50:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T17:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=155"},"modified":"2011-09-23T10:58:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T17:58:39","slug":"unproductive-social-parasitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Unproductive Social Parasitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really, can there be any other succinct summary of the highly dubious practice of cybersquatting (or &#8220;domain investing&#8221; if you&#8217;re a fan of the Newspeak of the pro-cybersquatter crowd)?<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t need an Internet domain name yourself, <em>simply don&#8217;t buy it<\/em> and it will be available for purchase by someone who does. Buying a domain just because you think someone else might want to buy it later and be willing to pay an inflated price contributes absolutely nothing to society. In fact, it <em>harms<\/em> others, by complicating the process of obtaining a domain and compelling them to pay more than they otherwise would have.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it&#8217;s legal, but it&#8217;s neither ethical or socially useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, can there be any other succinct summary of the highly dubious practice of cybersquatting (or &#8220;domain investing&#8221; if you&#8217;re a fan of the Newspeak of the pro-cybersquatter crowd)? If you don&#8217;t need an Internet domain name yourself, simply don&#8217;t buy it and it will be available for purchase by someone who does. Buying a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalist-scum","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}