{"id":43459,"date":"2012-09-24T03:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=43459"},"modified":"2012-09-24T03:09:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T11:09:48","slug":"canadians-download-pirate-more-music-than-anyone-else-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/canadians-download-pirate-more-music-than-anyone-else-in-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Canadians  Pirate More Music Than Anyone Else in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photo-dictionary.com\/photofiles\/list\/4314\/5749pirate_flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Canada is the land of painfully expensive internet and download caps so tiny they border on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/canadas-broadband-caps-almost-a-human-rights-violation-says-netflix-exec-2012-09-16\" target=\"_blank\">violating our human rights<\/a>. It&#8217;s also a nation of lawbreakers with insatiable appetites for free music.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new study of BitTorrent users, Canadians on a per capita basis download more unauthorized music than any other country in the world. Overall, we download the fourth-most music illegally, behind the US, Britain, and Italy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicmetric.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MusicMetric&#8217;s Digital Music Index<\/a> revealed that the most pirated piece of music in Canada in 2012 was Kanye West and Jay-Z&#8217;s Watch the Throne album. The most likely fans to pirate music are Hedly fans.<\/p>\n<p>About three billion songs and albums were downloaded through BitTorrent in the first half of 2012, the report found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada is the land of painfully expensive internet and download caps so tiny they border on violating our human rights. It&#8217;s also a nation of lawbreakers with insatiable appetites for free music. According to a new study of BitTorrent users, Canadians on a per capita basis download more unauthorized music than any other country in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":43461,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-43459","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/43459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/43459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/43461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43459"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=43459"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=43459"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=43459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}