Posts by jon_knox
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from the Guardian re Last.fm fears for future of online radio
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Here's a link to the BBC World Service on Piracy from the BBC's podcast archive. (The RSS Feed link has many more programs than the archive homepage.)
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Perhaps we need a new thread to record/suggest excuses people could use to refute an allegation of infringement?
eg.
Somebody repeatedly broke into my house/business and downloaded the content whilst I wasn't present and I didn't notice the repeated break-ins.
My computer got infected with a virus/mal-ware that initiates covert downloads.
Someone is hacking my (otherwise thought to be secure) WIFI connection and stealing my bandwidth.
One of my flatmates was a "P" addict, who's now in a (court required) treatment program and doing well, and clearly wasn't sane at the time of the infringement. He/she has moved out now though.
I was visiting a blog about movies (coz the commentaries are really-totally up to date), which also contains links to P2P sites to download the movie (not that I use them), but the blog from time to time causes my browser to crash and downloads the movies of it's own accord when I randomly click around on the page in the hope of exiting the page.
My house is haunted and the ghost does it.
My computer is religious, does it’s own thing and any attempt to stop it is an attack on faith.
My horoscope said it would happen and this is merely fulfilment of the destiny that I happened to be lumbered with. -
Just tried to watch Media7 from the TVNZ site which has the Media7 show from a link displaying the magic words "Anywhere, Anytime".
After enduring an ad, I then get the "This show is for New Zealand viewers only" message. Choice!
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er, sorry off-topic, but did anyone else note David Cameron's comments at Davos and think it a little odd.
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The BBC's 8 minutes with Phil Tetlock on the accuracy of forecasts has appeared elsewhere on the web.
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The Guardian's response references the BBC News (TV) coverage, which includes an interview with Clay Shirky, which is an iPlayer only and thus probably unlikely to be available elsewhere. Audio is available here.
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Response from the Guardian.
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So as per the relevent sections from the executive summary, only vague mention of copyright reform is made in the form of " enable technical copyright-support solutions that work for both consumers and content creators "....which seems to shoring up copyright, rather than more radical reform.
The term "copyright reform" is not used in the document itself.Digital Content
In relation to the Economics of Digital Content:
ACTION 10
In the final report we will examine measures needed to address the challenges for digital content in more detail, including opportunities for providing further support to foster UK creative ambition and alternative funding mechanisms to advertising revenues.In relation to Rights and Distribution:
ACTION 11
By the time the final Digital Britain Report is published the Government will have explored with interested parties the potential for a Rights Agency to bring industry together to agree how to provide incentives for legal use of copyright material; work together to prevent unlawful use by consumers which infringes civil copyright law; and enable technical copyright-support solutions that work for both consumers and content creators. The Government also welcomes other suggestions on how these objectives should be achieved.ACTION 12
Before the final Digital Britain Report is published we will explore with both distributors and rights-holders their willingness to fund, through a modest and proportionate contribution, such a new approach to civil enforcement of copyright (within the legal frameworks applying to electronic commerce, copyright, data protection and privacy) to facilitate and co-ordinate an industry response to this challenge. It will be important to ensure that this approach covers the need for innovative legitimate services to meet consumer demand, and education and information activity to educate consumers in fair and appropriate uses of copyrighted material as well as enforcement and prevention work.ACTION 13
Our response to the consultation on peer-to-peer file sharing sets out our intention to legislate, requiring ISPs to notify alleged infringers of rights (subject to reasonable levels of proof from rights-holders) that their conduct is unlawful. We also intend to require ISPs to collect anonymised information on serious repeat infringers (derived from their notification activities), to be made available to rights-holders together with personal details on receipt of a court order. We intend to consult on this approach shortly, setting out our proposals in detail. -
You could try searching for a specific director rather than simply trawling for "NZ short films".
48 hour film fest site might have a few leads.