{"id":493,"date":"2008-05-22T11:19:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T01:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=493"},"modified":"2008-05-22T11:24:33","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T01:24:33","slug":"aunty-beeb-sez-ood-no-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"Aunty Beeb sez &#8216;Ood: no data&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The BBC seem to have taken a page out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shreddingradio.com\/metallica.html\">Metallica Guide To Winning Dedicated Fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/oodfan.jpg\" title=\"Aunty says 'No.'\" alt=\"Aunty says 'No.'\" border=\"0\" height=\"205\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aunty&#8217;s upset about a crochet pattern made by a fan and offered for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mazzmatazz.co.uk\/index.php?page=knitting\">free on her website<\/a>; BBC Worldwide threatened a copyright lawsuit if the pattern were not removed. Regrettably, the knitter complied. She should have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2008\/05\/knitwit-bbc-goes-after-dr-who-fans\">told them to EFF off<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Outraged residents of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oodnadatta,_South_Australia\">Oodnadatta<\/a>, South Australia  are rumoured to be taking advice on the BBC&#8217;s blatant exploitation of their historic town name via this silly Dr Who character.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC seem to have taken a page out of the Metallica Guide To Winning Dedicated Fans. Aunty&#8217;s upset about a crochet pattern made by a fan and offered for free on her website; BBC Worldwide threatened a copyright lawsuit if the pattern were not removed. Regrettably, the knitter complied. She should have told them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}