Posts by Sacha
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Speaker: We don’t make the rules, we're…, in reply to
Some of the costs are in aggregating licenses.
Sadly for the media industry, that part of the business model is also under threat – hence counter-moves like those under the TPP to beef up enforceability of rights. This local case is just part of the push-back. And can we trust dolts like Groser not to trade this stuff off against the slightest whiff of dairy access?
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maybe I should just roll my own
Wonder how many subscribers you’d need to sustain a niche operator that picks up open-source content or material the others don’t?
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But for me, wanting to pay the creator, they just stole some of the creator’s money for no benefit.
Surely they pay content licenses which in theory go to the creators (though more likely the producers)? That's no different to what say Netflix US do. Local content would seem to be a differentiator over time.
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How much content do they produce as a proportion of what they distribute? Don't have time to do research myself today.
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True, that's conflating production and distribution. Even Netflix US, etc, aren't producing much of the content they distribute.
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Why does having or not having “any technical know-how” make a difference?
It acts a de facto barrier that providers can use to increase the perceived value of their services. Of course, that’s a risky strategy when a newer technology or service comes along and drops that barrier.
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I read recently that Sky are going to shut down Heartland anyway. That was an appalling deal by this government.
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Access: Here's to them, in reply to
Like the US folk who settled on “people with disabilities” as their replacement for earlier group terms like “the blind” and “spastics”, it doesn’t go far enough to support fundamental change. There is nothing special about what disabled students need to support their study and involvement in school life.
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If by “the one that currently works” you mean the one which organisations who rely on it are mounting a legal battle to retain in the face of fundamental disruptive innovation?
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Thanks, Kim. You said:
VPNs and other services do have legitimate uses for individuals and it’s not for us to decide when use is legitimate and when it’s not.
Our concern is that NZ companies like Callplus, who have paid nothing for content, are actively promoting a commercial service which enables large numbers of customers to access content without needing any technical know-how, in direct competition with legitimate NZ services, and we believe knowingly and openly in breach of their content rights.
Unless there are no other uses for global mode than accessing content to which you have been falsely sold 'exclusive' local distribution rights, wouldn't you have to ban VPNs as well, to be consistent?
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