Suggest everyone in NZ starts begging Spotify to set up over there. It's free and legal, and it's better than piracy (easier, quicker, better quality, better range).

Since no money reaches the creators or publishes, it strikes me as something you'd do if your concerns about p2p are purely based on the fear of getting caught.

In the online poker community* there's political motivation pro-Antigua in the trade dispute and will see ZookZ as a gambit worthy…

That's hilarious. The Antiguans were rorted by the US so we get to circumvent copyright law without technically committing an actual infringment...

It sounds a bit like allofmp3.com. I have struggled to convince certain geeks that that service is indeed too good to be true, and that the money goes…

I've always thought that if I was to win Big Wednesday, I'd buy back the Flying Nun catalogue from Warners, do the rights thing once (and do it right) and make a beautiful thing with eMusic. It's kind of tragic that I don't feel like that any more.

One suspects…

I have been with emusic for years. Recently when my credit card rolled over to a new expiry date I had to update the detail on my account, and emusic kept rejecting it. After many exchanged emails the best that emusic has been able to say is (sic):

Bearing in…

Someone in a position to know (or at least speculate) suggests to me that eMusic has never had the right to sell to New Zealanders.

I have been with emusic for years. Recently when my credit card rolled over to a new expiry date I had to update the detail…

It seems so weird to me that a lot of people genuinely think buying music is a drag.

I agree but my buying practice must seem archaic to many young 'uns. I buy CDs (sometimes online; sometimes from a store), transfer them to my iPod and seldom play them again.…

Also, apparently the 're-downloading' your music has caveats on it now.

It seems so weird to…

Money part as follows ...

The Proposed Approach: Summary

Phase 1- First Infringement and Cease and Desist Notice Procedure

Where a RH considers on reasonable grounds that there has been online copyright infringement of one or more of its works, RHs…

Thanks, Russell. I didn't want to come across all impertinent.

Geoff, I regard you as very pertinent indeed ...

So it's not "Orange Election Man", it's the non-gendered "Orange Elector". Ah.

I'm pretty sure it's both. And Orange Guy, or Orange Elections Guy.

And occasionally something like Schachengrubensteinowitz.

I had meant to run a dedicated NZIFF blog, but work and my emergency medical excitements got in the way. I'll get up a rolling discussion this morning.

Thanks, Russell. I didn't want to come across all impertinent.

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Forced handbrake stop – what a hoon, I had no idea.
Also a bit of a dirty bugger. Respect!

Just like e. e. cummings.

e.e. cummings might not be the best choice of driver for our book racer team....

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thoroughly oiled the universal
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But you know what? Someone in a position to know (or at least speculate) suggests to me that eMusic has never had the right to sell to New Zealanders. Which would explain certain recent events ...

Although that does cast an even more interesting light on the RIANZ submission's bigging-up…

So it's not "Orange Election Man", it's the non-gendered "Orange Elector". Ah.

And yet questions remain.

Which came up in my fruitless google for 'Orange Election Man porn'

it's the non-gendered "Orange Elector"

Well having examined his photos carefully, I agree he's not anatomically male...

Maybe they're just trying to avoid rule 34

And my nephew, who is half Japanese, does…

... and wondering how a ten-year-old is going to handle subtitled Japanese.

Ponyo certainly worked its magic on a 10 yr old female Around Here. Knows & appreciates a totally radical take on The Little Mermaid when she sees it. 8 yr old brother somewhat underwhelmed though.

Hum... since the Better Half and I are taking his grand-nephew to see Ponyo on The Cliff by The Sea this morning...

... and wondering how a ten-year-old is going to handle subtitled Japanese. I think we was so thoroughly gob-smacked by the visual splendour of Howl's Moving Castle at…

I had meant to run a dedicated NZIFF blog, but work and my emergency medical excitements got in the way. I'll get up a rolling discussion this morning.

Speaking of which, how much do you think the director formerly known as Zowie Bowie would rather talk about his movie than…

The disclaimer now reads:

This site is intended for the purposes of parody and to criticism of the August 2009 Citizens Initiated Referendum. Images…

Hands up who wants to talk about films instead!

I had meant to run a dedicated NZIFF blog, but work and my emergency medical excitements got in the way. I'll get up a rolling discussion this morning.

Hands up who wants to talk about films instead!

Hum... since the Better Half and I are taking his grand-nephew to see Ponyo on The Cliff by The Sea this morning... Works for me, though whether you can handle a tsunami of Miyazaki-related gush is another matter. :)

I'll go and warm up me Hemingway.

With good ol' Papa you get the added insurance of his having been an ambulance driver in WW1.
Just like e. e. cummings.
And Walt Disney.

American muscle is the only way to go in a straght line drag.

I'll go and warm up me Hemingway.

"My A la Recherche du Temps Perdu can totally kick your Barchester Chronicles's arse!"

"That asthmatic seeker of lost times forever squatting in a tepid bath of his remembered past and all the stale soap suds of countless previous washings, all the accumulated dirt of years lay crusty on the…

Or perhaps sent to Christchurch / run over by a book racers car and then crushed along with the car.

"My A la Recherche du Temps Perdu can totally kick your Barchester Chronicles's arse!"

Now, that I'd stand on the side of the road to watch.

Oh God, please no. Not this again.

Hands up who wants to talk about films instead!

@Steve Withers: that is (was) one of the nice things about eMusic: it was a completely RIAA-free zone. Still is if you're not in the US.

But you know what? Someone in a position to know (or at least speculate) suggests to me that eMusic has never had the right…

Depends on what you mean by "everyone" (and for that matter "pay"), there's little need for lawyers, middlemen, or a corporate hierarchy when the artist & the consumer are connected with 0 degrees of separation

Authors and performers still need rights collecting societies. It's simply a practical thing, especially when those…

It's the 21st century – customer first!

You poor, deluded creature. Let me fix that for you:

It's the 21st century – buy legislation to criminalise the customer first! If that doesn't work? Buy legislation to impose artificial subsidies. If that doesn't work? Panic!

The problem is that it's far from certain there will ever be the necessary advertising revenue for YouTube and Spotify to really pay everyone.

Depends on what you mean by "everyone" (and for that matter "pay"), there's little need for lawyers, middlemen, or a corporate hierarchy when the artist & the…

It's the 21st century – customer first!

Oops. Mis-thread.

Damn you! ;)

My sources tell me that, under the revised legislation, offenders will have their iPods crushed.

Or perhaps sent to Christchurch / run over by a book racers car and then crushed along with the car.

Maybe sports figures shouldn't be role models, but that's a different matter from whether they are.

Maybe they are, but that's a different matter from whether they have a greater obligation than anyone else to be so.

One is the 'role model' argument. That our sports figures are role models, especially for children. They just ain't!

I like your argument, but I'm not sure it works. Role models are those whom others (incl. children) model themselves on. Maybe sports figures shouldn't be role models, but that's a…

Their music is essentially imposed on us as our "culture" and they want to own it outright. Sorry......They can keep it.

How very ... T. W. Adorno. I like it!

It's also worth keeping in mind that they're not doing anything to the music you've bought, they're just changing their plans. So there is…

Disconnection would nevertheless be preferable to fines as it would be an inconvenience, he says.

In whose world is being fined not an inconvenience?

Foundation director Bronwyn Holloway-Smith is unsure if the same campaign would be repeated, but says the foundation will be vocal in its opposition if the Government persists with a plan to disconnect the internet accounts of copyright infringers. That might…

Coincidence ?

downloading is dying

Wellll ... in that the kids are apparently happy to use ad-supported music streaming services, rather than buy music to "own".

The problem is that it's far from certain there will ever be the necessary advertising revenue for YouTube and Spotify to really pay everyone.…

To sidetrack this discussion for a moment (into another medium), I would be interested in postings about film festival offerings.

Red Cliff was wonderful —
1) Joins the very short list of films that justifies being longer that two hours. (And I would be rather keen to see the two-film…

Anything you’d like to say to the Hamilton fans out there?
New Zealand’s full of such creative, talented people, and I would say, support NZ music. Go out and get involved. It’s a real big time for…

downloading is dying

1) how ridiculously they penalise those who park there without patronising their facilities

Found out a friend gets $20 casino chips, gets receipt for chips, (carparking)then cashes them in at another window.Bingo $20 validation on parking.That's a win,win.:)

disorienting experiences in that carpark.

I figured if you go back in the…

having wandered around the bloody thing for at least 15 mins

Thank god it isn't just me being a moron. I have had some dreadfully disorienting experiences in that carpark.

Mid-August Lunch, was charming in a slow…