Posts by Kyle Matthews
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That'll suck back a fair proportion of his $50K if most book stores opt in.
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I've already said that I don't quite know how we need to deal with movies.
Movies are probably 5 years behind music in this issue, because of the size of their product digitally. It's only the past 5 years or so that downloading movies and TV has become common, that was 10 years ago for music.
Books currently don't seem to be on the path much at all, it'd be scary to see how powerful all three sets of publishers would be together at full court press.
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1. Paul Henry doesn't do Close Up any more. That man was Mike Hosking.
I'm not sure why I conflate those two. I withdraw and apologise.
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I'm not going to comment on the substance of Kyle's comment because I know Charles personally so I'm starting to feel kind of uncomfortable.
I don't know him at all, but it wasn't an attack on him, more a comment on what you can do when you're in opposition (because you don't then have to implement it because you're out of power) which you can't necessarily do when holding a ministerial warrant.
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Should no-one be allowed to provide the Minister for Immigration with relevant information with which to make the decision?
I think if MPs start doing this the union will have to get uppity. Serious demarcation issues.
Chauvel is doing what hundreds of MPs have done before - making a populist call to do something which would be a lot more difficult if he was on the other side of the house and had to consult actual lawyers rather than political strategists before signing things.
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Kyle, the technology of distribution doesn't impact on the creative urges of the creators. It doesn't change their desire to produce things for consumption by others.
Yup. But it could change their ability to earn money from their creations, particularly for literature, as there's not much of a live gig as a major source of income.
All the desire in the world won't keep the wolf from the door, hence it being a valid question to ask.
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And that is what ACTA and s92A are all about - vested interests seeking restrictions on utility of new tech, to further their existing business models.
But also to try and uphold their legal rights, not something that the blacksmiths had in their back pocket.
Yes the world has to change, but there aren't any useful comparisons because the transmission and copying of 'stuff' has never been basically free before. I don't particularly care about the blacksmiths because we have cars instead of them. I care more about musicians and writers and movie makers because we're not talking about replacing something old with something new, we're talking about trying to keep the same thing - literature, music, movies, tv shows - but in a different way. Saying "would you let the blacksmiths decide..." doesn't advance that discussion.
Yes, but measured how?
The fact that it's difficult to measure doesn't change my point - that the government should take an interest in how technology and the way it is being used impacts upon the people who create culture in our society and their ability to keep on doing it. That seems like a sensible thing for the government to be doing rather than tying us to this new international law.
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Off topic, but Craig's mentioning of the Press Council reminded me that last night Henry read out a BSA finding on Close Up, which I had the misfortune to be watching.
At the end of reading it out he sneered and screwed up the bit of paper he was reading from and tossed it aside and made some comment.
Such. a. dick.
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I still don't view it as analogous to the state decreeing that certain technological improvements are not to be used in some particular fashion.
Which I've never said.
But the blacksmith/cars comparison remains pretty useless. Culture and horse modes of transport don't really match up. It's a line for the media but it doesn't really become useful at second glance.
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if I started a PA book club, would anybody come?
Also it would need to ban "references to other books/authors which people who read a crapload more than me will have already read". Expecting me to get through one book is enough.
(I started a 900+ page tome on Bobby Kennedy at New Years, hoping to finish it by Xmas).