Posts by mark taslov
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Thanks Sacha, was hoping to hear some of that, sure beats the napalm death my boss was playing today. At a conversation over lunch with my kiwi colleague he broached an interesting point. Having lived here a while, both of us have been through the old 'clampdown on piracy' pantomime, usually pre-empted by a few international news articles, followed up by warnings in the local news, inevitably trailed by the disappearance of pirates from street corners for a couple of weeks before all returns to normal. It happens maybe once every couple of years. The point of me mentioning this being that despite the almost total nonchalance displayed by the government towards the infringers, the laws are in place, to combat this kind of misbehavior. As a necessity to placate the 'International' industry's need for blood.
Anyway, he was quite strongly of the opinion, that 92a was written in a similar vain, not to switch casual users internet off, but in the same way, merely to placate the industry, with an unlikely series of repercussions for the average user. In this way, the protest was one founded in paranoia, and this result, more work and time wasting for the government and all concerned, with the potential for worse legislation in future. Most interestingly,it could be seen to reveal the fractured relationship and distrust between the populace and government or more so the netizen's perception of the government, and the reactionary nature it fuels.
I was inclined to disagree, as we all know New Zealand is a police state and they really would imprudently start turning average Jonny's internet off pronto; )
The one upshot, is that it has illustrated our support for Russell's ideology, as well as his political clout.
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Consider yourself special...it's perhaps a little surprising that you still have access to dissident blogs and Gmail ;-)
Yeah, us damn natives, with our overpopulation and refusal to snap to the march of the red white and blue. Special as.
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I'm pretty comfortable with our jury system, and a system that allows judges who have heard all the evidence to ... um ... actually judge
really?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4859852a19715.html
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racists! this video is not available in your country...
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embedding disabled by request...
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/4858146a28.html
Couldn't help but notice that this article citing 'the world' made mention of as many as 3 countries. time for some realignment.
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I'm sorry about that jon. 'Happy' may be to slaphappy a word, basically I wrote that with an eye towards their basic mandate to govern vis à vis the habitual inclintions of those who give it to them,as opposed to whatever this is that they have going on, from my 'happy' perspective somewhere, where it's a non-issue.
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What I was trying to get to - we are now at the point where a fair number of people know that S92a etc. is a bad idea /
what I don't get ( and I've been looking for some time.) is some form of useful alternative to the wider issue.
Or is that still too hard for everyone.
Same thought is on my mind Jason. I find it very foreign, and quite otherworldly. My thoughts are these:
The western music industry is riddled with bureaucracy, Contrast the breadth and width of the industry at inception and now. At the time of the gramophone when material couldn't be copied, there was very little in it for anyone, except the stakeholders.
now we face a myriad of playback devices available to format to, unsurpassed copy-ability. It seems people are being made to suffer for being fortunate enough to live in an age where technology puts everyone beyond the long reach of a law. The populace is scapegoated. encouraged to protest. to speak up, to stand up against being criminalized for using technology they have legally bought in the way it was designed to be used.
While in the east, the markets driven by natural forms obediently follow the temperament of the masses, and the entertainment companies have seemingly long accepted the whims of the massive; the stars up to their elbows in various endorsements and other pies. While the offensives of western showbiz legal council, compensating for their formatting wing's ineffectiveness (whose only real weakness has been lack of ingenuity), whir onwards. The truth seems to be that the legal fraternity are the single most creative force in US showbiz right now.
"(CTEA) of 1998 extended copyright terms in the United States by 20 years. Since the Copyright Act of 1976, copyright would last for the life of the author plus 50 years, or 75 years for a work of corporate authorship. The Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years"
Seemingly arbitrary numbers.
Why so uncommunicatively long? Why not in some way incremented? Why a blanket legislation for 50 years of a creations life? I don't know the details, But it seems that at some point the bounds of human expressive form and language, hit this legislation and are running through it like toilet paper. And we as 'consumers' have tribally got into the spirit of things. And these laws don't begin to measure up to the tools we have at our disposal, much less the potential of our scion, Notwithstanding these constructs of ownerships being imposed on us by faceless cream-skimming suits.The chart music industry has never been so homogenized.the groove is red. Samplers, Djs, tape loops, cassettes. In the interests of New Zealand, why is the government clamping down on this at the behest of private enterprise while other governments do not? Does the movie industry make as big a deal as the music, Aren't they focusing on creating a better cinematic experience: Avatar! Box offices takings worldwide seem to be keeping them afloat.
but greed.
and the recording industry,could perhaps use their collective brain and start releasing everything on 5.1 dolby or some other techy format,.. in the name of staying exclusive. People shouldn't be made to suffer because an arm of industry can't keep its end up. mp3's sound more like wav's than cassettes did vinyl, and we're able to share more, but People will never stop buying music, it seems on the whole, the populace is just waiting for the big 4 to fire all those stumped, cokeheads they have working in the marketing department.
2. the unauthorized reproduction or use of a copyrighted book, recording, television program, patented invention, trademarked product, etc.: The record industry is beset with piracy.
Essentially there's use and then there's appreciation. I don't agree that appreciation constitutes use. Especially in association with the implied malevolence of the term 'piracy', with it's connotations of swordsmanship and one eyed parrot shepherding. The average Rata is just checking it out.
Faced with the rather unenviable choice of either pirated movies or torrented movies, I chose the soft copy. It's better for the environment and I'm not supporting piracy. It's piracy industry that uses. It's a fundamental distinction.
I feel, letting the people enjoy what is there, and encouraging sectors to mold to the skin of the population rather than stuffing people into arguments via legislation, would glean a tad finer, less imperialist cut. Basically audio and video make people happy and the
primary social role of a good government is to keep people happy.The recording industry will inspire this kind of discontent in their best markets, while offering product at as much as an 80% markup on the prices they're selling the same stuff at in developing countries, which are....riddled with 'copyright violation'.
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Enjoyed that Tennenbaum link Mark, good stuff, like news from the front lines.
Congratulations people the good work with 92a. Proud of you all. Not least the pig-fucker. First time in a while that I can recall seeing some real democracy in action in New Zealand.
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Top post Emma. Really enjoyed reading that.