{"id":306,"date":"2008-01-09T10:47:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T16:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/the-wages-of-sin-45-306"},"modified":"2008-01-09T10:47:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T16:47:19","slug":"the-wages-of-sin-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/the-wages-of-sin-45-306","title":{"rendered":"The Wages of Sin: $45"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0got my more expensive plan at\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pair.com\" title=\"pair Networks\">pair Networks<\/a> cancelled this week, but\u00a0as I&#8217;ve <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/mwp\/the-2008-list-installment-one-302\">previously complained<\/a>, it was too late to avoid a whopping fee for being a few hundred megabytes over my disk quota. It really irritated me that a 20% overage over\u00a0a span of 15 days would cost me 300% of my monthly service price, and I thought about trying to argue it down or shift some blame or refuse to pay the outrageous fine or whatever. But then, when I finally got around to cleaning out my rented FS, I came across a forgotten .rar\u00a0file (rarchive?) that, had it not been sitting there, would have saved me a big fine.<\/p>\n<p>The culprit? An episode of 24 that I had downloaded and for whatever reason stuck out there on my web host.<\/p>\n<p>$45 is steep for a fine, I guess, but I&#8217;m getting off cheap if that&#8217;s my only penalty for all the software and media thefts I committed over the years. And it&#8217;s a better wage than death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0got my more expensive plan at\u00a0pair Networks cancelled this week, but\u00a0as I&#8217;ve previously complained, it was too late to avoid a whopping fee for being a few hundred megabytes over my disk quota. It really irritated me that a 20% overage over\u00a0a span of 15 days would cost me 300% of my monthly service price, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}