Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
That hurt, Ian! But led me by chance to a chap called Roy Zimmerman who you must listen to as penance. Particularly, you may enjoy this one:
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
In the case of the Copyright Act, I think it would have been *better* had the law been passed in its original form and Big Media allowed to start laying into Pt. Chev mums with filesharing offspring. That would have at least created a reaction against further such measures including ACTA, TPPA and the like
I'm coming to believe this would have been the best option. I have no doubt that National WILL enact the clause allowing termination, but they'd rather not allow too much time before the election for it to bite them.
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to Emma Hart,
Sounds like an ultra vires conception to me (holy mother of dog! channelling my inner Farrar there and it was a bit scary)
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to HORansome,
This is definitely a hole I can’t dig myself out of.
But it's such fun to watch. Here, have another shovel.
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to George Darroch,
You realise he's the one that's caused your phone to be tapped...
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Apropos of nothing but too good not to share, rumours of Rodney Hide starting a new, more liberal party than ACT are unfounded.
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Good to know, I think. I still struggling to see who exactly the TPPA is supposed to benefit though.
The US, silly. No-one else gets any benefit at all.
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
But I can’t actually play them on my legally purchased region-free player?
Um, no? I don’t know which part of the law you’re thinking of but that’s not my understanding at all. As long as it’s for your personal use, you’re free to watch it, and even copy it across to your iPad or whatever. You can’t give away copies and you can’t play it in a public situation, like a pub, nor can you charge money to show it to people, and gods help you if you put a copy online for people to download.
The region-free thing is part of what’s under attack in the TPPA.
ETA Just saw Sacha’s comment about TPMs. The TPM section is a dog’s breakfast, as legislation goes. I don’t think it specifically prohibits the action Craig describes, though it gives enough purchase for a determined lawyer to have a go in court. But it’s more about making copies and breaking TPM to do so, rather than viewing copyright works as intended.
PS IANAL
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Emma Hart,
he other was:
I hope they all get gang raped in the ass.
Judith Collins?
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Sacha,
Serious question I haven't seen an answer to: was there an agreement between Labour and National not to vote for any supplementaries like Hughes's as part of securing suspension of the termination provision?
No-one has admitted that, that I know of, but it's the only thing that would explain both their behaviour in the House and the post on Red Alert.