{"id":957,"date":"2008-06-12T08:55:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T07:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=957"},"modified":"2008-06-12T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T12:15:49","slug":"the-quietus-vs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=957","title":{"rendered":"the quietus vs .."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>metallica<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>not sure if your rss feedreader picked up the <strong>metallica<\/strong> article that the quietus posted earlier in the week and you happened to read it ? <\/p>\n<p>well if you did, count yourself lucky.<\/p>\n<p>due to pressures from the bands heavy mob, the article was taken down.<\/p>\n<p>needless to say such matters are rather mind boggling especially given that the write up on <u>the quietus<\/u> was a somewhat glowing appraisal of the bands forthcoming album.<\/p>\n<p>all that is strange enough, but given the bands well known fractured relationship with the internet community such ham fisted reactions are not totally unexpected. <\/p>\n<p>if the story ended there, then fair enough, the thing is, the tale of discomfort has morphed and grown into a media beast. various blogs (both music related, and non-music) have picked up the noise and kicked up a bit of virtual sandstorm giving <u>the quietus<\/u> site a higher profile than i think they ever expected.<\/p>\n<p>thankfully, it seems that the good people @ <u>the quietus<\/u> are not cowering in the shadows and biting their nails in fear, but putting their take on the whole matter online.<\/p>\n<p>game on.<\/p>\n<p>now the only thing remaining is for the lawyers to demand <u>ireallylovemusic<\/u> clear their internet cache, because of course, like many others out there i would like to think, most people have absolutely no idea how to save an article on their hard drives for future prosperity, because that would be very very naughty.<\/p>\n<p>almost as bad as all that illicit file sharing that the band were so keen to prevent all those years ago, and that went according to plan didn&#8217;t it ?<\/p>\n<p><u>more detail<\/u> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thequietus.com\/2008\/06\/black-sky-thinking-metallica-take-internet-give-it-a-big-kiss\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>metallica. not sure if your rss feedreader picked up the metallica article that the quietus posted earlier in the week and you happened to read it ? well if you did, count yourself lucky. due to pressures from the bands heavy mob, the article was taken down. needless to say such matters are rather mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}