its all getting a bit hysterical really with twitter avatar blackouts now wikieducator blackouts!
look. even the ISPs don't like this section in the new copyright act for NZ ... because it means they've now actually got to come up with some policy to deal with repeat offenders/infringers ... but what hasn't come up with all this blackout stuff is that the law doesn't stipulate what types of policies the ISPs have to have -- it basically leaves a huge open door for them to come with as lenient a policy as they like - which is what they'll do because the last thing they want to be doing is a) policing, and b) cutting people off from their service. Its not designed to grab the odd file sharer ... what i think this is there for is probably to placate other countries (most notably the USA) that we (NZ) have some suggestion of a policy in place to stop large scale piracy (think piratebay not that last cd you bittorented) so that they can meet a requirement of a free trade deal. Something else ... what large scale pirate racket would operate out of NZ? nobody. its too damn expensive! nobody in their right mind would set themselves up to share/pirate large numbers of files from within NZ - its just prohibitively expensive. You'd go to a server in the US. Now can you imagine some copyright agency from NZ going to Bluehost.com and saying "oh ... according to our law you have to shut these guys down." probably not. I just don't think that this section of the law is as big a deal as people are making out (twitter effect maybe). I'm sure that there's probably other sections more henious but this one will get all the attention. my .10 worth. brent. On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <wmackint...@col.org>wrote: > Hi Leigh > > As an educator, I'm now blacked out as well. Not unlike digital rights > management --- we'll be moving down a slippery slope if we presume guilt > before innocence. > > Copyright must be respected --- however accusations of copyright > transgressions --- which could lead to internet connectivity being cut > without due process and investigation seems out of tune with the values of > fair dealing in education. Not too mention that many of our free content > licenses which encourage reuse and sharing are in fact copyright licences. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 17:45 +1300, Leigh Blackall wrote: > > To this: http://wikieducator.org/Image:Blacked-out.jpg > > so that it appears like this: http://wikieducator.org/User:Leighblackall > > -- > -- > Leigh Blackall > +64(0)21736539 > skype - leigh_blackall > SL - Leroy Goalpost > http://learnonline.wordpress.com > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Leighblackall > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
