America writing our laws?
Wikileaks cables show that America has been “helping” draft out copyright law. They also lobbying to undermine Pharmac. How many other New Zealand laws are they writing?
s92a
You’re an internet pirate
Last night the Nats were ramming their new copyright bill through under urgency. Like the much reviled Labour bill that preceded it, it contains the assumption of guilt by accusation. There are already calls for repeats of the 2009 blackout protest…
Video piracy, it turns out, isn’t new
60 Minutes on “Video piracy” – 1979 – part 1 of 2 60 Minutes on “Video piracy” – 1979 – part 2 of […]
S92A: Opportunists jumping on bandwagons
It is always interesting watching people and organizations jumping on bandwagons of popular movements. In the case of the section 92A of the […]
S92A: Campbell Smith is finally removing his head from his…
Sometimes the myopia of RIANZ is breath taking. Campbell Smith, its chief executive, has written an dialogue piece in the NZ Herald. “Anti-piracy […]
Democracy and the BOFH, Jonkey, and S92A preparations
Reply is a feature that accidentally got turned on last week when I had a adware/malware outbreak through a security hole (those buggers […]
S92A deferred
Looks like the introduction of s92a has been deferred… It is still a bit of a rumour (at least until I find the […]
Protest mode on Section 92A
This Saturday, February 28th, Section 92A of the Copyright Act is due to come into force. It is currently unworkable. This website has […]
The Standard and s92a.
I’m not going to go over the whys and wherefores of this clause of the new copyright act. No Right Turn, Just Left, […]