Hard News: The file-sharing bill
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nzlemming, in reply to
Oh, look - a quiet release of SCF documents
Jee-zuz fuck!!!
Just when I thought it wasn't possible to despise the Government more.
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3410,
Is it, I don't know, copies of bloody 'Sucker Punch' or Lady Gaga songs (or whomever, Katy Perry, I don't know) or what?
Yep, pretty much.
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Percy Flage, in reply to
Oh. Oh dear. Thank you. So this law will, generally, stop people getting for free now that which they might get from a Warehouse bargain bin for $5 in six month's time?
In practice, could this have an impact on my freedom of expression (or opportunities to express myself freely) or is this all about ensuring that I'm a compliant, meek and obedient consumer? Viscerally, I would like to be affronted by the law, but if it merely curbs people's opportunities to swap nonsense...
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Apart from the obvious legal and IT flaws of the bill, it's also flawed on a practical level, in that it'll be basically impossible to police who is actually breaking the law.
For example, while a parent may own the computer and pay the connection bills, it's more likely to be their kids that d/l stuff. Yet there's no way of identifying the actual perpertrator, but the parent will be the one to wear the penalties.
There's all sorts of possible scenarios where it'll be impossible to know who did it.
It's not like speeding, where the camera picks you out.
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In general, it's real locking the door after the horse has bolted territory, isn't it ? I'd love to know how many relatives and friends of politicians and NZFACT d/l stuff. Chances are it's many, many of them.
This bill is egregious to the nth degree. It's much like trying to clamp down on home brewers because it's taking money away from breweries.
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Gaddis, in reply to
It's not like speeding, where the camera picks you out
Yup, it is. If you were to lend me your car and I went for a hoon it is still your car, your fine.
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Is there a chance that this bill was rushed through in an attempt to pre-empt a more draconian version being introduced via the TPPA agreement?
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Sacha, in reply to
I doubt it - sounded like pure opportunism to use up the Urgency time beyond what was needed for CERA. If TPPA demands worse conditions this government will just grab their ankles tighter. And Labour will hand them the vaseline.
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Katrina Shanks and Melissa Lee...
Tell me again, MMP supporters, just how good is the system which foists these people upon us and how democracy will be the worse for it if we abandon this farce come the referendum.
Yes I know FPP brought us Ben Couch and Merv Wellington, but I'm not suggesting we return to it, but rather that we adopt a system whereby people can watch this sort of festival of teh dumb (live or via a streamed candidates debate, or just hear about it from friends or online) and go "I don't think so" without being forced to either vote in a way that does not advance their preferred party, or accept these mouth breathers as their "representatives".
/threadjack
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Sacha, in reply to
Maybe a recall option like California has? Or a simple IQ test, perhaps.
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Kracklite, in reply to
Was it Eisenhower who expressed surprise that half the population was below average? MMP has nothing to do with this moronic inferno. Our representatives are… our representatives. I’m depressed by this fact, but I’m angered when they don’t do what they’re paid to do or claim to do (Hello Mr Robertson, how's that inquiry going? I hear that the police have been rather uncivil with someone else lately).
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Kracklite, in reply to
Well, I know the latter part is facetious. Possibly the recall option…
Part of the problem with California now is the fact that it has become ungovernable through, I believe, an excess of populism through excessive reliance on referenda, which is not the same as representative democracy. Of course everyone will prefer lower taxes; of course everyone will prefer X, which incidentally costs more… and so on. There’s a nice quote from Burke, I believe…
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Sacha, in reply to
We'll need some good reminding about the failures of California and Colorado if Hide continues to push equivalent daftness on this country's Councils.
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Anywho, Media 7 is on, meet ya all back here in 30 minutes.
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Sacha, in reply to
spoken like a man with Freeview
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nzlemming, in reply to
I know FPP brought us Ben Couch and Merv Wellington
And they were not the stupidest elected members. All parties have had their share. Of course, it always seems that National's had a little more than their share... ;-)
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Rex Widerstrom, in reply to
MMP has nothing to do with this moronic inferno. Our representatives are… our representatives.
But in most professions where an IQ above luke warm is an asset, there's an effective filter to stop those possessed by teh dumb getting through. Unless you've had a surgeon say "the dangly bit next to your... you know, like the sausages are made of, but not of course that we make actual sausages out of ours because I remember this one time, at med school..." :-P
Unless your argument boils down to "the stupid deserve a voice too", in which case the diplomat part of me (as opposed to the diplomatic part, which errr... doesn't exist) agrees.
But the blind have a right to be able to travel. That doesn't mean we actually give them the car keys, we let those with the requisite ability drive for them.
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Kracklite, in reply to
Personally, I subscribe to the model that all current or former ministers of education are either stupid or swine, with considerable overlap if one were to draw a Venn diagram. Tolley and Wellington (Arthur Wellesley was most definitely a genius, apparently rather upsetting that model – but he was never minister of education) are clearly in the idiot circle. That Thunderbirds puppet wosshisname and Russell Marshall likewise. Joyce is not an idiot, but a phallocephalos that can go in the porcine realm. As for Goff… well, once I would have said that wasn’t an idiot…
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nzlemming, in reply to
Apparently, Brian Tallboys was reasonable…
And Mallard was interesting.
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
The officer who conducted the interview with Mr Farmer was “moved sideways” within the force. Could that bus ticket be any wetter?
It was 2007 that the conviction was overturned, so slightly different internal environment. And given that detectives are something of an elite, if the guy got shuffled off into traffic that would be quite the serious status demotion. You don't always have to reduce someone's rank (and detective isn't a rank, anyway, so you can't demote someone from detective) to make it clear that they're unworthy of responsibility.
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Kracklite, in reply to
Unless your argument boils down to “the stupid deserve a voice too”
It does, actually.
I'm sure we agree in principle that even the stupid deserve votes. I'm also sure that we agree that they don't deserve respect.
IQ above luke warm is an asset
You know, there are plenty of opportunities for humour in pointing out the difference between Celsius and Kelvin, numerical comparisons with IQ and room temperature, if you know what I mean. Ie., mine is Kelvin, X's is... ahem, you know...
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Steve Parks, in reply to
spoken like a man with Freeview
heh
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Kracklite, in reply to
Maybe so, but loss of “status” versus false imprisonment and the destruction of a family? I’m sorry, but that officer is going to enjoy freedom and hot meals and a guaranteed income for life despite committing what would be a serious criminal offence had he not been a police officer.
I suggest listening to this to understand the real affect this has had on Farmer and his family.
These are real people, dealing with real and long-lasting consequences due to the malice of a corrupt officer who – as it seems now – is being protected.
“Elite”? Please, don’t get me started.
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
despite committing what would be a serious criminal offence had be not been a police officer.
umm, what? What offence, exactly? He didn't perjure himself, and in any case perjury by police officers is very definitely a criminal offence.
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
IQ above luke warm is an asset
You know, there are plenty of opportunities for humour in pointing out the difference between Celsius and Kelvin
I'm just waiting for someone to suggest that one of our elected representatives has an IQ of zero. Kelvin ;)
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