Kerry Mayes wrote: > On 07/12/06, Timothy Musson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Copying music from your CDs to your MP3 player currently counts as > >copyright infringement in NZ. It's not a _criminal_ offense at all.
> Sorry, I was just being consistent with the inaccurate use of language > on tv - they referred to the law change as "de-criminalising" copying > your music to your iPod. (If I sounded picky, I didn't mean to :^) I think some of the language they use is intentional, to change the way we think and feel about copyright. For example, instead of the correct term "copyright infringement", TV news items these days almost always use the scarier-sounding but meaningless term "copyright theft". If people feel a connection between copyright infringement (say, duplicating and sharing something with a friend without getting permission from the copyright holder) and theft (physically depriving someone of a possession, perhaps by violence), they're less likely to oppose restrictive new copyright laws and technologies. I'm not saying TVNZ is trying to brainwash us :p ... But there are creepy groups like Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) with branches in NZ, feeding stories to journalists, and there's nobody providing balance. Tim -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
