Pirates vs Librarians

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Yep it’s the important issues I consider !!!

Actually this is a somewhat important topic in New Zealand really; the laws surrounding anti-piracy and what-not in NZ. Today the NZ Herald published a story about libraries having to possibly remove all internet access.

It’s what I have been trying to explain to people all along; there is no burden of proof, and it will affect small business in NZ.  Possibly my message hasn’t been getting through because I engage the “rant” mode when I talking; which is probably not conducive to listening to what I have to say :)  

Now I’m no saint I’ll give you that, but, and here’s my thing, if I see value then I don’t mind paying .. no problem in fact, I’ll pay!

Computer games for instance; I spend money, because I see value in what I’m buying, just take a look at my Steam account, see .. I spend money!  But if there is no value, I refuse to pay .. sky tv for many years took money from me, all the while slowly but surely, increasing the amount of advertising I had to sit through, the value diminished to where I could no longer stand giving them any money. Same deal with Vodafone. I was a Vodafone customer for near on a trillion years, but have just recently switch to 2degrees; better value

The real cure to this needs to be a better thought out way of selling movies, tv shows, and all this pirate nonsense. Better value !! that’s what I want.

It’s all related I tell ya . … fibre in our country could be an enabler to a fix for this problem. We are meant to be embracing technology, not hindering it. The current climate is heading towards stifling technology advancement;

Paul Willard is the owner of this website, and main contributor. Paul has been involved in internet related technologies since 1994 when the internet went commercial in New Zealand. Paul Willard is a Director at Net Enterprises Ltd, a web development and system administration company in Hamilton, New Zealand. Paul is also frequently involved in business events and get togethers in the region.

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