Posts by Sacha
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It's complex. Disabled people are part of every other population group/community, and so I take Joe's point about differences.
Can I suggest that it is not only about the traditional groups defined by impairment types though - although that's the level a lot of policy still responds to and it reflects our medicalised silos (which assume that all people with similar impairments are more common than different).
A young urban female Korean disabled student is likely to have a rather different set of experiences than an older rural male Maori disabled farmer, even if they both share the same type of impairment. At the same time, alongside their differences they also have things in common, including being disabled and living in this country.
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Disabled communit ies .
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The EFF chimes in with a very accurate and incisive piece (ta Juha):
"Repeat infringer" in the DMCA is a term that was not defined in the law itself, and remains contentious here in the United States. Legal experts like David Nimmer have argued that "repeat infringer" means what it says: someone who has been repeatedly shown in court to have infringed, not simply accused of multiple infringement by rightsholders.
There's certainly no universal acceptance in the home of the DMCA that rightsholders can force ISPs to throw US subscribers offline simply because they've been on the receiving end of (often inaccurate) notices by those same rightsholders.
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More Herald after today's petition handover, interestingly carrying no byline.
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Whereas I have no excuse..
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System copies indiscriminately
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Haven't seen a link yet, so heeeere's Simon, with a guest appearance by a certain teeshirt:
Then came Napster and it’s aftermath. It was the beginning of an extended period where the largely faceless automatons who now controlled the shrinking number of labels decided to not only bite, but quite viciously attack the hand that feeds.
...I can almost understand the remnants of the majors in NZ fighting tooth and nail to preserve what they have but the Canute-ism of it all is rather unavoidable and it is, in every way possible, as big a public relations disaster for the labels (at least on a NZ level) as the law suits against kids were in the USA, and thus is equally as self defeating as those ludicrous legal missteps.
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the two laws in the news this week are in fact just headline-grabbing but otherwise blunted statutes designed not to be enforced
Nothing like a good distraction while you are planning something really unpleasant (which in the circumstances seems somewhat inevitable anyway). Should keep us busy until late May..
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One careless owner...
Rofflenui
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outlines a fair process parties must go through before any action is taken
"Any action"? But the law says the action will be terminating the connection, not some menu of other options. Disingenous.
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