Posts by Mark Harris
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What's hard to work out, Sacha, is why he's such an arsehole. I mean, Simon has said
I still hold both him and what he's achieved over the years, which is not insubstantial, in the cataloguing, archiving and presentation of NZ music in very high regard, as do many in his industry.
so he must have something going for him. Clearly not his personality nor his intelligence, but maybe he's due all that respect for being a hard worker or something. I dunno.
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Sadly, the fools do
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Troll is as troll does.
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Geek! Geek! Except that you do theatre as well, and on stage. How odd...
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Your sarcasm-fu is pretty crap as well
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its not going to solve anything.
Finally, you say something I can agree with.
its going to give a first indication of biggest downloaders be they of pirated material or legitimate. why would you say wtf to that. its obvious.
Which is meaningless. I regularly hit my 10GB a month download allocation and I don't download any copyrighted material, except under fair use when I'm doing research and I certainly don't republish that stuff. I pull down a lot of free software, Linux distributions, web tools, all manner of stuff. I also watch a fair bit of YouTube, courtesy of the links provided on this site and others. How is tagging me as a large scale downloader going to solve copyright infringement.
It's the equivalent of observing that red cars are involved in a lot of accidents, so the police are going to target people driving red cars because some of them may be bad drivers, to the exclusion of all other drivers.
You really don't understand the stuff you're talking about.
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@Sacha
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And like it or not, you do meet the definition of troll.
and like it or not I can't seem to get excited by being called one, it means nothing to me, sorry, I wish I could be offended for you but its just a still word out of roll playing games to me.
As your Internet-fu doesn't appear to include the capability to use search engines, have one on me:
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Simon, we agree! Good god, I need a drink. ;-)
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if internet providers are forced to be involved in tracking pirated material, how do you see that playing out.
I see large ISPs taking the most cost-effective route and blocking all torrented material whether it infringes or not. I see many people knocked off the net by being falsely accused of misusing copyrighted materials. I see the genuine serial infringers getting more and more complex systems for distributing their items. I see the 'industry bodies' getting more and more raucous in their claims of livelihods being destroyed. And I see no diminution of copyright infringement.
I see no advantages to the end-user as the net becomes progressively less useful. I see an ever increasing 'arms race' for ISPs as they try hopelessly to keep up with the concerns of the "industry bodies". I see it being more difficult for genuine artists trying to get there material out there to do that independently. I see no advantages for anyone. Copyright infringement is not a technical problem, it can't be solved by throwing technology at it.
usage meters
WTF? How are usage meters going to solve anything? We already have usage meters on our internet accounts - it's how ISPs base their billing and know when you've got to your limit for downloading. The measure the amount of data. I can't even imagine how you might think they could assist in preventing copyright infringement,
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scary angry dudes like you hang out there.
And loud-mouthed trolls like you.