Posts by Don Christie
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mark - just quickly before I head off:
what's wrong with the fine for frivolous take down notices
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Please note that copyright holders and ISP's are currently trying to nut out a solution, so hopefully there will be something that satisfies both parties as a result.
if those two parties come to an arrangement does that become law or do we just pretend that the recording industry is the only one that would use the Copyright Act?
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"the industry" wants a big stick. I'd say that the stick is doomed, but we'll see ...
the other problem with the big stick is the negative impact it has elsewhere. So, even though it is doomed to failure, it still manages to skew things in unfortunate directions in the mean time.
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I still remember watching truck racing with him one day
Slow truck, fast friend.
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Kyle, well, I'm with McCain (and John Key for that matter) on the stifling of freedom of speech thing.
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Well, you lost that game of audience roulette and here is your spanking.
Well said. I must say, I didn't "get" the question either. Was it supposed to be funny or ironic?
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copyright breaches in his download and are going to shut him off. He had to call and explain he has flatmates/wireless isn't necessarily that secure etc before they finally capitulated but told him it was last chance.
A group of Good People (TM) in Wellington have been working on a project called Freethenet. The idea is to provide free wireless round the city by using spare capacity that many of us have paid for but don't use. The idea is that it will help stimulate the view of the city as a go-ahaead savvy community.
Obviously this act and these actions would prevent this work being successful which is a great shame.
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Hi Islander. Welcome back.
It would be useful for me if Russell could give you a guest post discussing how to retain control over your works through different licensing and Copyright mechanisms. You touched on this topic several days ago on this thread and I'd like to hear more.
Thanks.
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Independents (28% of the world market and 85% of the music released in NZ) are left out. This is a simple divide and conquer strategy from the media companies so that they don't have to deal with paying Indies.
This is a very fair comment and your description of your dealings with youtube etc. are valid. I *do* think that Independents actually have a chance here to break the dominance of the main labels but probably *not* through aligning themselves with the strategies used by those labels.
You complain about sites earning advertising dollars, well, offer your own indy Hype machine. Don't worry about the dollars yet, they will flow.
Do you have figures on total music sales in NZ for the last 20 years, BTW, including ringtones, callertunes, radio play and Internet sales?
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Mark, call me Don, please. Only the cops call me Mr. Christie and whilst your status is becoming elevated to that level WRT Copyright enforcement we have until February until that becomes reality :-)
I asked what number of days would be workable. Notice-notice is not simply "telling someone off" it is about ensuring people subjected to takedown notices have at least a chance to respond. I ask again, what would be an acceptable number of days for that response?
You also haven't answered my 2nd question. Why drop the fines for frivolous take down notices?
Finally, when are you going to sue Russell for encouraging us to break the law through the use of the Hype machine - or will you only pick on people you don't know, like our kids?
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they were proposing 28 days total from when an ISP was notified to when the person infringing copyright was given their second notice to remove content.
Ah, so "completely unworkable" has simply become a timing issue. Any thoughts on a timeframe that is fair to all parties?