The new paper doesn't (to my surprise, actually) conflict dreadfully with the speech a year ago in which Key announced the policy.

But pretty much everything else they said — and campaigned on — thereafter was kind of bullshit.

It is, but it hasn't been given much publicity in comparison with the FTTx rollout.

I'm not entirely sure that National has actually said it will proceed.

Isn't this happening with the Kordia pipe though?

It is, but it hasn't been given much publicity in comparison with the FTTx rollout.

I'd upgrade the backhaul and international bandwidth first

Isn't this happening with the Kordia pipe though? Given a lot of his case rests on "geographic distance overcome by getting Kiwi businesses virtually at meetings around the world" then that's an absolute essential

The thing that strikes me is that under the policy announced a year ago by Key and Williamson, 75% of New Zealand homes were to have "ultra-fast" fibre by 2014 — less than six years from the government taking…

As I just said on Kiwiblog, the pressure for Telecom to sell down their Chorus stake must be much stronger now, as retailers are to…

Serfs?

Toiling day and night in the underground comment mines...

...to the serious detriment of their health.

"Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology subjects who died at 60 of a heart attack. In December, another tech blogger,…

don't take it personally,Craig. it's neither east nor west. If my right to share were threatened I would feel so too.

How flexible a technology is fibre? Will we spend $$$ on putting in 2010-generation fibre and then find it's obsolete in 10 years? (Good-quality copper has transitioned from the 3kHz analog it was installed for through to 20Mbit DSL). How many people will opt for expensive fibre over…

Toiling day and night in the underground comment mines...

Where unpaid child labour forms the bulk of the work.

Serfs?

Toiling day and night in the underground comment mines...

Nae King! Nae quin! Nae Laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled agin!

Crivens! There can only be one t'ousand!

How creativity is being strangled by the law
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/187

Also, the Media 7 promo on the front page of tvnz.co.nz describes its host as the "king of the blogosphere". Does that make us his loyal servants?

Nae King! Nae quin! Nae Laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled agin!

(Channeling my inner Feegle)

The reasoning was that technology intended merely to control geographic pricing was no business of copyright law.

Wierd. But the Bill doesn't exempt any other non-financial uses of copyright law, does it? (Is it still forbidden to ship stuff between markets against the wishes of the copyright holder, or was…

western freedoms...Please Steal This...

Yes, Mark, and while China has made significant moves in the right direction when it comes to copyright and intellectual property (giving credit where credit is due) can you please give the 'eat shit hypocritical Western capitalist running dogs' routine a rest?

Believe me, there are…

No. It's specifically exempted.

Wait, isn't the bill technology neutral? What about the "specific exemptions" that will be required for stuff that hasn't yet been invented?

The reasoning was that technology intended merely to control geographic pricing was no business of copyright law. So there is actually a principle behind…

I'm sure all parties to debate around the bill will be thinking that it could have been worse

Bollocks. This has to be one of the shittiest pieces of legislation relating to technology for a long time.

The depressing thing, I think was the inability of the select committee to…

No, they were heavy with the weight of 400 Years Of Slavery ...

Wow, that is heavy. I pity the fool who wears that around his neck.

No. It's specifically exempted.

Wait, isn't the bill technology neutral? What about the "specific exemptions" that will be required for stuff that hasn't yet been invented?

I'm ... suspended in a spa pool filled with goo and utterly out of my tree.

Oh. I was expecting to see this! (possibly NSFW, depending)

And if you liked/hated that, then this is better.

But come to think of it, his chains never seemed to bounce around when he ran – maybe he glued them on?

No, they were heavy with the weight of 400 Years Of Slavery ...

Does anyone else remember the shortlived movement in the rap community to forego 'gold ropes', in…

If you're getting your plumber to install your broadband then I'm surprised you made it online. You're probably surfing by some sort of complicated water reticulation system.

OK, time to come out of the closet. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rUqpPbxGzc|lI'm part human, part machine, suspended in a spa pool filled with goo and utterly…

So, can I assume that the region-free DVD player I've had for the past five years is now an uber-felonious TPM-spoiler?

No. It's secifically exempted.

Isn't physical media going to be obsolete in 10 years or less?

Seem to remember hearing that 10 years ago.

It's the hour every morning to put it on, and then more time in the evening to clean it all that was bizarre. He must have been _really_ slow at…

And finally, Freeview users can tonight (9.30, TVNZ7) see the second Media7... I'll put up the links tomorrow.

Can I suggest that TVNZ looks to making some improvements to the podcasts of the show?

1. why not supply a copy of the whole progamme via this format? It's probably far…

LOL, I never realized his gold was all nicked. But if it came to asking him for my gold back I guess I'd probably just take a pass too.

It's the hour every morning to put it on, and then more time in the evening to clean it all that…

if you want to play your DVD on anything other than an RIAA approved platform

Guess I won't be buying my first DVD for a while then..

Isn't physical media going to be obsolete in 10 years or less?

I'm sure all parties to debate around the bill will be thinking that it could have been worse

Bollocks. This has to be one of the shittiest pieces of legislation relating to technology for a long time. Kiss the chances of any innovation goodbye and if you want to play…

A report in the Media Guardian this week ("Home copying--burnt into teenage psyche", Monday 7 April) cites a survey by the British Music Rights that showed that 95% of 1,158 Brits surveyed 'engaged in some form of copying'

as long as the water is carried by a series of tubes. then your upload can get deliveried via a fat pipe.

So, in conclusion, Craig's house is just a massive bong?

Meanwhile, I find it amusing that the New Zealand Institute's FibreCo proposal, which has won the backing of David Farrar, Bernard Hickey and Rod Drury seems a bit, well, socialist to me.

I don't see Mr Drury as any sort of political partisan? In terms of David Farrar, it's interesting…

but put it on the web for free/cheap? the thing's now on my high-rotation list, and i'm thinking of buying the artwork to go with it. and more importantly i'm telling everyone how much i like it.
tell me that's a model your copyright/DRM fanatics would support.

I think the…

Now we know why. It's not Craig, his plumber is just running his broadband and his sewage through the same pipe.

So Craig is about to post some angelic, clean-as-a-whistle, G-rated post, but as he…

If you're getting your plumber to install your broadband then I'm surprised you made it online. You're probably surfing by some sort of complicated water reticulation system.

lols,

as long as the water is carried by a series of tubes. then your upload can get deliveried via a fat pipe.…

In 2005, Mr. T stated that he never would wear…

Well, for some time now I've seen myself as the PAS Fool.
As you do.

Rubbish, you ain't no Fool, fool. Fight u for it!

Does that make us his loyal servants?

Well, for some time now I've seen myself as the PAS Fool.
As you do.
(But having just wiki'd The Fool perhaps I'm just The Village Idiot)

Weird.

Plumbers who make hash? The North Shore is such a crazy place.

Should have made the incompetent numpty cook lunch, now you mention it. He sure couldn't install a hot water heater worth a twopenny toss.

Does that make us his loyal servants?

Serfs?

you can take the CD to a librarian or a teacher who ... will use a TPM circumvention device to rip it for you

Somewhere, in a school in New Zealand...

"Miss! Miss! Can you rip this CD for me, Miss? My brother wanted to do it, but the Governor-General…

And I hope we're not going to have better luck than the last go round with the plumber who came to come around to fix the hash the last one made.

Plumbers who make hash? The North Shore is such a crazy place.

What if its as simple as holding down a key when the disk is inserted in a computer?

The copyright police will be around to seize your stuff later today.

I thought yo' mama couldn't even hook up her Freeview box. Come on, did you expect me to resist a set up like that? :)

She had a chap in to do it. She may actually be the first Freeview HD user on the Kapiti Coast.

She had to __get…

What if its as simple as holding down a key when the disk is inserted in a computer? Will Dell/Apple/Microsoft et-al be prosecuted for issuing user manuals for their products?…

She had a chap in to do it

I shouldn't mock – getting the broadband hooked up was enough drama, so we're probably going to do the same. And I hope we're not going to have better luck than the last go round with the plumber who came to come…

I won't be able to help you though. I think …

(3) A person (A) must not publish information enabling or assisting another person to circumvent a technological protection measure if A intends that the information will be used to infringe copyright in a TPM work.

Well, I'm not a…

Am I the only one to notice the chilling…

Ah copyright. The desperate, hopeless and pointless fight against piracy continues...

i refer you to radiohead's latest album.

how many of you would have actually purchased the album at $35 to "give it a chance"? especially after the last two conceptual pieces...

but put it on the web for free/cheap?…

I thought yo' mama couldn't even hook up her Freeview box. Come on, did you expect me to resist a set up like that? :)

She had a chap in to do it. She may actually be the first Freeview HD user on the Kapiti Coast.

Further on the fibre fo' yo' mama tip...

I thought yo' mama couldn't even hook up her Freeview box. Come on, did you expect me to resist a set up like that? :)

it's perhaps the inevitable fate of copyright law that it will neither fully deliver on the expectations…

For reasons that aren't clear to me, the name of the bill was also changed, from the windier Copyright (New Technologies and Performers' Rights) Amendment Bill.

Ironic that the bit that came out was performers rights, the bit that public support is more on. What's left in is new technologies,…