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	<title>On the Gripping Hand</title>
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	<description>A dwarf, standing on the shoulders of Giants</description>
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		<title>Submission on the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a submission to the Commerce Select Committee on the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill. The PDF is available for a slightly better formatted reading experience Thank you for the opportunity to make a submission on the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill. My name is Mark Harris. I am an IT consultant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That BoingBoing Thing &#8211; Finale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SO, I was getting ready on the weekend to tear apart Rob Beschiza&#8217;s comments on the prior posts under a great title -&#8221;The Fisking of Rob Beschiza!&#8221; when I mentioned it to a friend of mine who looked oddly at me and said simply &#8220;And that will get you what, exactly?&#8221; And he&#8217;s right. There&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That BoingBoingThing, Part deux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rob Beschiza, Managing Editor of BoingBoing posted a couple of comments on my last post. Rather than filling up the comments queue, I thought I'd answer them here.]]></description>
		<link>http://tracs.co.nz/gripping-hand/that-boingboingthing-part-deux/</link>
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		<title>That BoingBoing Thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got banned from BoingBoing recently.

This, in itself, is not huge news and I'm not weeping in my tea over it, but the incident is worth examiniation, I think, as a part of the wider "knowledge economy" and the implications of that.]]></description>
		<link>http://tracs.co.nz/gripping-hand/that-boingboing-thing/</link>
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		<title>Hoist with their own petard!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Government Accountability Office has made a study of &#8220;efforts to quantify the economic effects of counterfeit and pirated goods&#8221; and concluded that &#8220;difficult, if not impossible, to quantify the economy-wide impacts&#8221; (h/t Ars Technica) No surprise to those of us who have been calling &#8220;bullshit&#8221; all along, but what&#8217;s really interesting is why they&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wellington Declaration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday 10 April,  a group of concerned people got together in Wellington NZ (where the next round of ACTA began today) to hold a PublicACTA Conference to discuss the issues around the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Michael Geist and Kim Weatherall were keynote speakers, and the group broke down and analysed what we know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busy week for ACTA watchers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been a bunch of leaks from the ACTA process lately, and this week saw 2 of the biggest &#8211; the names of the countries who are opposing transparency and, even more surprisingly, a breakdown of the positions different negotiating teams are taking on aspects of the US proposal, known as the &#8220;Internet Chapter&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tracs.co.nz/gripping-hand/busy-week-for-acta-watchers/</link>
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		<title>Censorship and the DIA filter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NZ Department of Internal Affairs is launching a web filter to block child abuse images (CAI)/child pornography(CP) (See my thoughts on terminology) in March, according to ZDNet. As part of the structure, there will be an Independent Reference Group that will have oversight of the process and be a point of review for complaints against the filter and its operation.

I am part of the Independent Reference Group, mainly because I don't believe the filter will work, and because I am implacably opposed to any extension of it.]]></description>
		<link>http://tracs.co.nz/gripping-hand/censorship-and-the-dia-filter/</link>
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		<title>If you&#8217;ve nothing to fear, you&#8217;ve nothing to hide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We're talking about major changes that will hobble innovation and tie us to decaying business models that actually only benefit a very few corporations. How do artists, musicians and authors get any benefit out of this, when they're already struggling with their respective industries to make a buck? It's not piracy that's taking your money, people - it's the contracts you signed with your publishers.]]></description>
		<link>http://tracs.co.nz/gripping-hand/if-youve-nothing-to-fear-youve-nothing-to-hide/</link>
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		<title>Mount up, people! The real fight is just beginning!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, what's hauled me back to the keyboard? ACTA - the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - you may remember that I've blogged on this before. Well, it's just entered its next round, in Korea, that well-known home of freedom and civil liberties (and the first country in the world to pass a 3 strikes law and implement it). Some of the latest draft has been leaked (again) and the Internet is noticing.]]></description>
		<link>http://tracs.co.nz/gripping-hand/mount-up-people-the-real-fight-is-just-beginning/</link>
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