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Computerworld > Breaking: TelstraClear bails from copyright code talksSource: computerworld.co.nz

TelstraClear has pulled the rug from under efforts to implement New Zealand's controversial new copyright law.

The telco has told the Telecommunications Carriers' Forum (TCF) and a working party trying to thrash out a draft code to implement section 92A of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act that it no longer supports the effort.

Telecom, Vodafone could each own a piece of new Aussie telco | National Business Review (NBR) New ZeSource: www.nbr.co.nzIn fact the RMA reforms were so well balanced, that Labour didn't even know whether they supported them or not. We still don't know.    woah. wtf. heh. lol.    

once apon a time, about 3 years ago, i was accused of copyright infringement.

It was a photo, posted to flickr long ago, and used in my blog. It was a photo i took of my chocolate milkshake, out at "The Bach" near island bay.

Here's the photo:

Some random from the intarwebs left comment after comment on this blog saying "You stole my photo". It was complete buillshit. They also started emailing my webhost, repeatedly accusing me of copyright infringement. My webhost dutifully forwarded these to me, i replied it was all complete bollocks.. we moved on.

fast forward to November 2008 - what's an ISP supposed to do under this circumstance? I'd call their claim "unreasonable", but i dislike the idea that my ISP is the judge and adjudicator.

Consider this advice from NZ's Ministry of Economic Development:

What should a copyright owner do if they discover a New Zealand website contains material that infringes his or her copyright?

I'm up north in Warkworth this weekend, for a foocamp style gathering called TelecomOne. There's lotsa telecom people, telecom contractors, and a few interesting people invited to get together for this unconference.
Most of what is discussed is under NDA, so you won't see tweets or blog covereage of the talks...

Qtopia's green phone.

Appears to be GSM - which is a bummer because i work with a cdma telco. Looks like it all works, must find one to play with.

Hewlett Packard and Debian

Sounds like they're good buddies.
Lunch!
thought about heckling at the mysql "self healing databases" (why not right schemas that enforce not needing healing in the first place?)

Copyright and Copyleft

Someone made a kids card game involving publishing content. I arrived 10 minutes early, to find they had already started. They also finished very early.

Synchronization and Gnome

approached from the idea that MS windows and MacOs already do this, so gnome need to. They seem to want to create their own thing instead of using existing stuff. ipod syncing was one thing (isn't there heaps already in linux?) Think syncing your photos with flickr. I'm not sure if they really grasped "sync", not just push. If i tag my flickr photo will that tag make it's way back to my desktop? (maybe i should get involved with that one -- i do spend far too much time querying the flickr API).

Sys-admining with user packages

One of the catalyst directors described how catalyst maintain the account for on call sysadmins on so many servers. We use debian packages to create required packages (to get new accounts created) and conflicting packages (to remove staff who no longer need access).

Auto building Live CDs

i admit i got a bit absorbed in the distro flames on the irc channel, and missed much of this