Posts by DPF
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Clarke - IIRC those offences only apply to those who manufacture and sell or commercially deal in such circumvention devices - it in no ways applies to someone who just uses it.
Now I agree the penalties are still over the top even for commercial manufacture and supply of anti-DRM software, but the scare scenario of going to prison just because you hacked a CD you purchased is wrong.
In fact the intro to the bill specifically says actual circumvention is not prohibited.
Stephen M - yes the lawyers have raised issues aroound interpretation that you are taking an overly negative view on some issues. As you say the Judge is the final arbiter. I've actually been meaning to call you to discuss the issues further. As I said I did find your posts very very useful.
Juha - I do not rule out that the bill which leaves select committee may be unacceptable and if so I'd oppose it being passed. But I think the status quo of no format or time shifting exemptions is an appalling one, and provides far greater risks to consumers being stung.
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While I agree with many of the criticisms Nandor makes of the Copyright Bill (and look forward to working with him on highlighting these, and trying to gain amendments), I think it was regretable to vote against the bill at first reading because this gives the impression that the status quo is acceptable, and it isn't. The bill deserves select committee consideration.
Also Dr Marshall's blog is not a legal blog, in that he is not a lawyer. This is not to discount his analysis - I have found much of it very usefu and am very grateful to him for the analysisl. However I have also had a lawyer specialising in this area say that there are some errors there. InternetNZ has commissioned a full legal review of the bill by a lawyer specialising in this area, and will make this analysis publicly available in time.
I'm not a fan of the bill as currently drafted, but it is significantly better than the Australian and US equivalents.
The key problem is the Commerce Select Committee has set a date for submission of mid February which is far too soon. I'm keen to have a workshop on the bill with interested parties, but it will be hard to schedule this before mid February. I am hopeful the deadline can be extended.
A key challenge is going to be not just saying what we don't like in the bill, but providing amendments which will improve the bill and be fair to both content producers and consumers.
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As I have just commented on my blog, you give a very different speech on your third day as leader compared to your third month as Leader. David Slack of all people should know this.
If John Key was announcing policies on Day Three it wouldn't say a lot for policy making process that it is now at he whim of the Leader.
He gave some very clear indications of different policies in areas such as environment, but more importantly he talked about what values he has. Values are what Leaders should talk about initially. Polices follow.
And the trick with the speeches of Clark and Key is cute, but you could do that with any two political speechs by being selective. Hell Churchill and Stalin probably. There's certainly portions in the Key speech Clark would never say, and it's not the end of the world that there were portions she would say.
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Tony - they could do so but only for five minutes at a time on Wednesday general debate.
They could try and table the book in Parliament which would then allow us all to get a free copy!
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Very very good.
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I think Keith's fisking has been excellent. He hasn't said you can't write about Asians and crimes. He has said that the facts in DC's story were wrong and did not support the article, and she was highly selective in who she quoted.
The fact her reubuttal piece is also full of wrong facts and red herrings speaks volumes.
As for Neilsen Ratings. I had no diea one can subscribe. Does it cost anything? Give me a pointer and then the (non) competition can begin :-)
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I was chatting to someone senior at Ihug yesterday and it seems their problem is being between owners. The sale transfer is in a couple of days, and the old owner won't pay for extra servers, and the new owner can't yet pay. If it were not for this they would have grabbed some extra servers as the spam started to impact.
Makes sense. As someone who has sold a company (Domainz) it is very very difficult to do capital expenditure in the period between the sale deed and transfer day.
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I joined the Net in 1996. Aardvark was for many years my first read every morning. It was great.
Agree with others that Robyn's site has been a continual one to read. I also recall Claire Hurman's had a blog, around five years before anyone was calling them blogs.
Newsroom/Scoop led to a massive change in how news works and how Parliament operates in terms of communications. I also miss my Newsroom feed, but am a daily Sccoop visitor.
Not a website but Brian Harmer's WYSIWYG news was incredibly valuable in the days before news exploded online.
More recently my favourites blogs are No Right Turn and Cactus Kate. Very much agree that the 2005 Frog Blog was superb. I used to pick fights with Frog whenever I was bored and he would always respond and it was great fun.