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Imagine if NZ Post was required to keep a photocopy of every thing you send in the post, unsealing the evelope to do so - including all your credit card statements, confidential contracts, love letters, photos of your kids sent to their grandma. Imagine what a stamp will cost under this law?

All this would need to be saved just in case you get accused of copyright infringement by post - and if you are accused, your local postman is to be the judge of your guilt.

If you are accused, and the postman can't work out if you're guilty or not, they will take the safer path and "disconnect you". You are now denied from sending or receiving any mail.

Lets imagine you are guilty -- you posted a video of your 2 year old daughter dancing at her birthday party, and in the background there's some music by the wiggles - you infinged copyright both by recording this moment and by sharing it with their grandparents.

You are denied use of the post. Now you can no longer receive you bank statement, no more photos sent to grandma, no christmas greetings from your sister in Ireland, and no more love letters.

Imagine it's 1990 and Post is how everyone sends these things.

You're going to struggle to file a tax return, government departments can't send you information, you won't get that invite to speak at a conference.

Then imagine it's today - and it's not the Post, but your ISP -- and now you have the situation in New Zealand.

i'm at day 9 of 16 days of NO WORK.

That's right, i haven't been to work for 9 days, and i've got another 7 to go.

So far, i've
* had lunch with my sister numerous times
* bought a couch (same as the one in the malthouse)
* bought an xbox and played much Assassin's Creed.
* numerous discussions with numerous artistic friends about http://creativefreedom.org.nz
* christmas shopping at mini craft fairs in the middle of a weekday.
* OLPC testing brunch
* beer oclock at catalyst
* tried to decorate our falling down student flat so it feels less falling down
* practise guitar, cello, flute but no piano.
* caught up with issues on a bunch of drupal contrib modules
* finished the whole API on a Net::Twitter::Search on cpan
* had strange dreams about making a clan tartan generator perl module :-S
* been to many a christmas do
* Tabitha's birthday party
* did a "cafe crawl" through wellington for 3 days straight.
* found a couple potential flatmates for next year