Comments on: Hocquard Part deux http://tracs.co.nz/gripping-hand/hocquard-part-deux/ A dwarf, standing on the shoulders of Giants Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:54:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: mark http://tracs.co.nz/gripping-hand/hocquard-part-deux/comment-page-1/#comment-32 mark Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:50:15 +0000 http://tracs.co.nz/gripping-hand/?p=49#comment-32 Yeah. While I wrote yesterday that I was pleased he didn't use the occasion to plug amplifier, I'm starting to feel that either he or Driver should have mentioned it as a disclaimer. While I wouldn't recommend that anyone make false claims to get someone kicked off the net, it worries me that there are no disincentives to do just that. My view is that Tizard and the policy people have been 'shocked and awed' by the industry's inflated (okay, let's be honest: "fictitious") statistics and have not considered the (by them) unintended consequences. Personally (and I'm not saying you're doing this but i know some are thinking it), I wouldn't point the bone of "corruption" at either Tizard or MED, because I've dealt with lobbyists from their perspective and, if you don't really know anything about the area under discussion, they can be mighty convincing - it's what they're paid to do after all. And Ministers are always more impressed with Men In Suits(tm) than Scruffy Geeks (cc) ;-) Yeah. While I wrote yesterday that I was pleased he didn’t use the occasion to plug amplifier, I’m starting to feel that either he or Driver should have mentioned it as a disclaimer. While I wouldn’t recommend that anyone make false claims to get someone kicked off the net, it worries me that there are no disincentives to do just that.

My view is that Tizard and the policy people have been ‘shocked and awed’ by the industry’s inflated (okay, let’s be honest: “fictitious”) statistics and have not considered the (by them) unintended consequences.

Personally (and I’m not saying you’re doing this but i know some are thinking it), I wouldn’t point the bone of “corruption” at either Tizard or MED, because I’ve dealt with lobbyists from their perspective and, if you don’t really know anything about the area under discussion, they can be mighty convincing – it’s what they’re paid to do after all. And Ministers are always more impressed with Men In Suits(tm) than Scruffy Geeks (cc) ;-)

]]> By: Juha http://tracs.co.nz/gripping-hand/hocquard-part-deux/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Juha Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:45:22 +0000 http://tracs.co.nz/gripping-hand/?p=49#comment-31 Hocquard doesn't seem to realise that amplifier.co.nz could quite easily get kicked off the Internet by say a malicious competing music site, or a disgruntled client or whoever. It seems to me that the law is based on some very muddled thinking, like Sione's Wedding being pirated on DVD and not via the Internet and people like Hocquard's 95% claims without any evidence at all. He's a lawyer, FFS, and should know you can't just make stuff up. Hocquard doesn’t seem to realise that amplifier.co.nz could quite easily get kicked off the Internet by say a malicious competing music site, or a disgruntled client or whoever.

It seems to me that the law is based on some very muddled thinking, like Sione’s Wedding being pirated on DVD and not via the Internet and people like Hocquard’s 95% claims without any evidence at all. He’s a lawyer, FFS, and should know you can’t just make stuff up.

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