{"id":12204,"date":"2010-04-25T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-09-13T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T12:15:53","slug":"reinhardt-buys-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/12204-reinhardt-buys-passes-away.html","title":{"rendered":"Reinhardt Buys passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?209675-Reinhardt-Buys\">Reinhardt Buys<\/a>, well known IT lawyer and a MyBroadband community member, has passed away after a short battle with lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Reinhardt was a respected IT legal professional, and recently dissolved his legal firm Buys Incorporated to join Deloitte &amp; Touche as a senior manager in technology and privacy law.<\/p>\n<p>Reinhardt has often assisted MyBroadband with legal matters, and provided free legal advice to many consumer based online entities like local torrent websites.<\/p>\n<p>Condolences rolled in online via Twitter and Facebook, with Reinhardt being described as an IT law pioneer and legend.\u00a0 Reinhardt was 39 years old when he died.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/forum\/threads\/reinhardt-buys-dies.228025\/\"><strong>Reinhardt Buys<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well known IT lawyer and defender of freedom of speech passed away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}