Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Russell Brown,
Spotify is legit and earns artists fuck-all. Megaupload is dodgy and earns (some) artists decent money.
Makes sense who the entrenched middlemen would go after first.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
jump the curb
Peripheral, but I'm struck by how this US usage has replaced the previously common "kerb" in a few published articles in NZ lately. Nothing personal, just a culture shift reflecting that broader dominance of another country's thinking. Much like the IP discourse.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
No government will regulate away an entire business model.
Telecom.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Russell Brown,
Meanwhile, we'll look like a bunch of wallies
and it won't help us attract and keep high-value creative/knowledge industry workers who expect first-world cultural infrastructure.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
Until the returns on direct sales (through streaming or downloads) for a show in a region like NZ can exceed the licensing revenue of the same show by a broadcaster the broadcaster will be the primary distribution channel and will dictate the timing and ultimate availability of other channels.
Unless a government with balls regulates otherwise.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
For Television it's a nightmare and I can't see a way it will ever be resolved, it's simply not possible for companies to provide direct, legal, immediate access to their TV content.
they seem to manage it in the US market
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to nzlemming,
or the Chrisco people
this ham is rank!
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Simon Grigg,
another building PR disaster on the part of the MPAA and RIAA
Torrentfreak has a rather caustic assessment of their efforts in Australia with the iiNet case.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Russell Brown,
Without that, as I understand it, the subsequent racketeering and money-laundering charges don't fly.
I guess you need a crime to have proceeds of it to launder.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to nzlemming,
The case has been before a grand jury in the US and satisfied the conditions that must be met.
Thanks