Posts by Russell Brown
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Let's not live in the fantasy world that Arthur Baystings and company inhabit, where 95% of music downloads are illegal
I think it's more the assertion that every infringing download is a lost sale that's hard to sustain.
Let's see numbers. Let's get a handle on the problem.
I so agree. I'm tired of emotional missives. Let's see some data and think about what to do about it.
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the fee would be distributed through a collecting society based on a statistical analysis of content being shared in NZ.
The Danish ISP TDC sort of did that -- unlimited, legal music downloads with your broadband connection. Trouble is, the music was Windows Media DRM and would disappear when the ISP account was terminated.
I think there'd be mileage in an endorsed sharing system that returned fees via a collecting agency but didn't mess it up with DRM. There are a number of local record companies who'd be up for that on day one.
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Here's hoping.
While you were typing ...
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This just in: Section 92A scrapped.
Chris Finlayson will now presumably be tasked with drafting a new provision into law.
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OT: Guess who I've just provisionally confirmed for the next Great Blend?
Squee!
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You know, the funny thing is that I was able to sit back with a glass of wine and watch that documentary about Thatcherism on saturday because my darling was off watching the final BSG episode with Jose Barbosa and Matthews Dentith.
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On a completely different track: what was that final score in the Blues vs Chiefs game on Saturday again?
How about that Stacey Jones, eh?
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Scoop has the transcript of Key on Q+A
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Shit was real fucked up there, but there's a bit of relief that at least things aren't that mental here.
As Lewis points out early on in the story, Iceland even gave Americans a chance to say "Well, at least we didn't do that ."
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I managed to grab Tory! Tory! Tory! , the BBC doco about the rise of Thatcherism, in the words of those who were there.
The first part (awesome Saturday viewing, I tell ya) was fascinating, and presented clear themes:
1. By the time the neo-liberals came to influence in Britain, there were stark economic policy problems that needed addressing, and their solutions did speak to that.
2. Most of them were bonkers in one way or another. Unsurprising, given the movement's cultish origins, but it's quite striking that Enoch Powell and Keith Joseph both managed to take themselves out of the game before it started by letting slip some alarming views on race and eugenics.
3. The ground was laid in influencing opinion outside the democratic process -- think-tanks-a-go-go -- long before people got to vote on it all.
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