Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Russell Brown,
Not the filesharing bill, no. That's in the US position on TPPA.
Ta. Quite possible that's what I was reading about
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Phil Lyth,
It's just another self-obsessed defensive rant that refuses to acknowledge responsibility.
Unless Labour gets over themselves right now, everyone else is due for another three years of being dicked over by a government that any competent opposition would be ripping to shreds. Pathetic.
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
But I can’t actually play them on my legally purchased region-free player?
I believe that would count as circumventing TPMs, yes. One of our friendly local IP lawyers might want to confirm or correct that.
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I think that's more of a win-win for all parties
Quite. It's adapting business models in ways that did not require a law change - and it shows up the industry's refusal to do it more widely.
I recall reading somewhere in the lead-up that our recently-passed law makes it illegal again to avoid regional encoding of DVDs (which like staggered release dates brings only harm for consumers). Progress?
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to giovanni tiso,
And the answer can't be simply to side with the intermediary whose business model is more current, surely.
To put it another way: the problem of the coming decade will be how to curb the power of Google, Apple and Facebook, not how to increase it. It increases by itself precisely because they have a very powerful business model.
I do agree with that. Just shifting the power away from the dinosaurs of Hollywood and the 1970s music industry would help, but no way is it enough. Initiatives like Flattr are probably part of the answer, but the whole regulatory landscape needs to ensure that the correct parties have their rights and responsibilities balanced, as you note.
It irks me when industry lobbyists get away with conflating benefit to creators with intermediaries like publishers who end up being the rights-holders where it counts. Muso Michelle Shocked made some cogent points about that relationship in her interview broadcast yesterday on Radio NZ, just as Steve Albini did years earlier.
There are parallels with ACC being re-cast recently as a relationship with the employer rather than the employee - which is similarly not being challenged adequately by the 'opposition'.
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Muse: Hey Greg O'Connor, Krup You!, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
pull an Asian crime wave out of her arse
Nah, they're Maaaries this time.
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Expert discussion about the copyright legislation by TUANZ CEO Paul Brislen and the Science Media Centre's Peter Griffin on Radio NZ this mornng - stream, 20min or MP3, 7.2MB.
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Russell Brown,
throwing around numbers without really knowing what they meant
next career step, member of parliament
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Kumara Republic,
that wet bus ticket will surely sting
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Labour's lack of spine over CERA has cost The Standard one of its authors (h/t Danyl).
Labour should have said: ‘we want special legislation and a commission for Christchurch but this law is a naked power grab beyond any justification. We have been lied to repeatedly through out this process, so we do not feel we can trust Brownlee with these powers. If the following amendments are made (give amendments limiting the power to override legislation to only specified Acts, putting power in Commissioners’ hands not Brownlee’s, and establishing proper rights of appeal) we will vote for this law. Otherwise, in good conscience, and as representatives of the people of New Zealand entrusted by them to defend their democracy, we cannot.’
The millions of Kiwis who are suffering under National need a Labour worth voting for. Every time Labour lets itself be tripped up by petty squabbles, by indecision, by fear of standing up and defending its principles, it is we New Zealanders who lose. CERA is just one example.
I desperately, desperately want a Labour-led leftwing government at the end of this year. It fills me with dread to think what Christchurch and the rest of New Zealand will look like if National is allowed to plunder it for another three years. But I can’t go into battle for the Left’s ideals every day when our parliamentary representatives go and do this to us.