Posts by nzlemming
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Funny, I feel the same way about the entire Harold ;-)
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And, having re-read it just before, rather eloquently I did write it, even if I do say so myself.
You did, Oscar, you did.
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I've just had an email that includes the phrase "your treachery will not be forgotten".
I guess this makes you "damaged goods" as well... *ducks*
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"You'll never act in this town again, Russell Brown!"I jest, but with a sour taste.Fortunately, I think the actors, producers and techs will get over it a lot more quickly than the dyed in the wool Trotterites.
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If one, just out of interest, wanted to read this, so-called, 'Thread of Dooooom', where would one find it?
It's all Matthew Poole's fault. He started it, mum!
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Idiot/Savant tweeted yesterday that the bill would make "slaves" of everyone in the film industry, which is an absurd claim. When I challenged him, he amended that to "serfs", which is still absurd.
I've found most of his commentary on this issue bordering on the unhinged, myself. Like others mentioned above, "Solidarity uber alles" seems to be his theme.
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Fair point Jonathan, which is why I said "if you can monetise it".
@Jeremy
Of course that would involve planning , something you told me off about.
No, I told you off about planning based on false assumptions. There is a difference, which you appear to have missed. Try again.
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Where the film industry is troubled, as Jonathan King and others will be able to tell you, is in the current treatment of anything that is not a blockbuster having difficulty getting seen. That's not due to downloading, but to lack of time in the theatres and scheduling against the big ones.
If you can monetise it (yes, I hate the word too, but it works), downloading offers more opportunity for small film-makers than threat.
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We might not want to get too carried away as to the scale of truly unacceptable behaviour.
True, it's always the exception at the end of the bell curve that does the damage. And the sound and fury, ugly though it is, rarely leads to actual damage. But it's not unheard of.
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And what you're missing, Jeremy, is that profits are actually up in the music industry. Revenues are always insecure in an open market. Public tastes change, and industries have to adapt to that. The RIAA runs their particular line about downloading because their members don't want to adapt. Those who are adapting are doing okay.
"Music industry facts" is one or the biggest oxymorons of the 21st Century so far, only surpassed by "war on terror".
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They're ostensibly trying to stop another Bryson, but to paraphrase badly I don't think the words they're inserting mean what they think they mean.
I agree. Instead of taking the time to produce a criteria-based test (which is what the Court had to devise for itself so, y'know, they could have just used that as a starting point), they tried for a shortcut.
I think it's still open for judicial review on a case by case basis, but it will be whether the contract is being fulfilled, or whether it's misleading, just as the IRD do for trusts. Whether it will be the Employment Court or the District Court that gets to deal with it will be of interest.