Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Russell Brown,
fair dealing provisions
we all need to become journalists or teachers
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Moar more
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Kracklite,
as Oscar Wilde observed, “socialism will never work – it takes up too many evenings”
Brilliant - had never heard that one.
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Russell Brown,
Clare Curran has been highly engaged with all this.
Yet I'd have to say her speeches during the session were rambling and overly engaged in the pettiness of the House. Jacinda Ardern and David Parker were far better and clearly understood what they were talking about.
I understand Labour may have made compromise deals over the substantive Bill, but does that including voting against Gareth Hughes's sensible amendment to remove one of the worst features, which Curran now tells us we should trust the current government not to enact?
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to glennd,
wonder if the end goal of certain groups is just to get P2P and similar activity banned altogether, and make it illegal for ISPs to allow such traffic.
That might be an unconscious goal, sort of an immune system response from a beast that doesn't want to change to match its environment. Worth keeping an eye on net neutrality too, for instance. This is all lobbying fodder as Mark has so astutely observed.
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to nzlemming,
Think of it instead as a piece of theatre, much like the TSA "war on travelers" in the US. They want to be seen to be doing something. Some of them may even believe their own propaganda that 70% of people will stop downloading if they get a warning notice. Of course, in order to reach that level, they're going to have to send out an awful lot of notices. Expect anguished media execs in 6 months time complaining about the costs of getting ISPs to obey the law and that's why they need the termination button.
They have another propaganda line that the ISPs are making huge profits from the downloaders and so have no interest in shutting the practice down. They have obviously never looked at ISP profit margins but it was their rationale for wanting ISPs to pay all the costs of policing.
Also, expect them to take a number of cases through the Tribunal and the District Court, calling for maximum penalties - they have to, to justify having pushed this legislation through 2 separate governments. Some of them may even believe in it.
And, if they can persuade Power to flip the switch, expect them to get someone terminated as soon as possible pour encourager les autres .
Damn good summary. Bravo, Mark.
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to nzlemming,
I think you left a "more" out of that sentence... </spirit_of_the_thread>
Did you leave a 'more' out of that sentence?
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Jackie Clark,
now I feel left out. I can't even imagine what it would be
embrace the intrigue
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Steve Parks,
spoken like a man with Freeview
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Kracklite,
We'll need some good reminding about the failures of California and Colorado if Hide continues to push equivalent daftness on this country's Councils.