{"id":23905,"date":"2020-06-17T04:32:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T03:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=23905"},"modified":"2020-06-17T04:32:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T03:32:25","slug":"linked-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2020\/06\/17\/linked-to-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked to prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan will <a href=\"http:\/\/librarylearningspace.com\/japan-passes-new-copyright-law-criminalize-manga-piracy\/\">make it a crime<\/a> to download&#8230; &#8220;academic texts from the Internet. The new law will take effect on January 1, 2021.&#8221; Two years in prison and an $18k fine, for public &#8220;pasting hyperlinks of illegal websites&#8221;. The Japanese parliament passed the new law on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>One imagines there will be mass civil disobedience over such a disproportionate law. Doing things like posting links to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/textbook-of-veterinary-diagnostic-radiology-by-donald-e.-thrall-z-lib.org\">the most obscure Elsevier textbook<\/a> freely available on Archive.org, all over official government websites, and then publicly daring the authorities to prosecute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan will make it a crime to download&#8230; &#8220;academic texts from the Internet. The new law will take effect on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2020\/06\/17\/linked-to-prison\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}