Br3nda Wallace has noticed something strange. A press release from Judith Tizard on 16 October barely registered before it vanished. I didn’t see it come through on my feed from the Beehive site, nor on the newzealand.govt.nz feed. And it seems that it hasn’t been taken down, but permissions have been changed so that it [...]
Just spotted in my RSS feed from the Government portal – newzealand.govt.nz, in case you didn’t know – is a post from MED about the latest round of ACTA negotiations ACTA Negotiations: Report on Round Three, 8-9 October 2008, Tokyo Of course, it says bugger all of substance, as expected after the last round report, [...]
I forgot one of the key things he said which shows how ridiculous the whole business is. “there was a thing the other night on the news about people stealing other people’s wireless connections and things like that, the technology’s there , you can, you know, your umm your number that you have for the [...]
I just watched TV3′s Sunrise segment with Chris Hocquard, an entertainment lawyer, wobble on about section 92a. He’s a director of amplifier.co.nz (which I’m pleased to see he wasn’t plugging, so kudos for that) and chair of bFM, which gives him some skin in the music game, but I wasn’t too impressed with what he [...]
According to PM Helen Clark on TV3′s Sunrise (about 3m21 in) this morning, Judith Tizard is working on a new business model for online copyright. Yeah, right. Full marks to Ollie Driver for pointing out that the Act only requires allegations, not convictions, to trigger enforcement (and a hat tip to Nat Torkington for picking [...]
On September 17, I emailed all the parties I could find from the Elections Website to ask what their policies were regarding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. I looked at their websites first – nothing at all [UPDATE: as xurizaemon points out in the comments, the Greens at least have a tech policy statement that covers [...]
There’s now a Facebook group for supporters of change to section 92a – if you’re part of the insidious New Social Order (and, for my sins, I am), go there, join up and tell all your friends. Earlier this year Canadian Prof. Michael Geist organised a similar group against the C-61 copyright bill and forced [...]
Colin Jackson was incredulously eloquent this morning on RNZ, talking to Kathryn Ryan (speaking notes on his blog) about the farce that is section 92a of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment, which is a little like a foretaste of ACTA. Basically, section 92a says to ISPs, though shalt not allow thy users to download copyright [...]
..over on Public Address System. It started two weeks ago in a post of Russell’s about the Internet Debate on TV and so Russell set up a specific thread to discuss copyright. There’s been some very interesting (if occasionally heated) debate about the origins and future of copyright. Check it out.
I blame two brown people for this blog: Mike Brown of Webstock, and Russell Brown of Public Address. Mike and I were talking in Sydney, back in 2005 after the Web Essentials 05 conference, and one of our takeaways was that all god’s chillun got a blog. And a Flickr account. Mike went on to [...]