Labour’s “ICT” policy includes a statement on “Open software” in government, part of which is attempting to get two thirds of government agencies to use some sort of open-source software by 2015. This is basically what you expect from politicians when talking about “ICT” (or nearly anything, unfortunately) – they jump on whatever bandwagon/buzzwords are [...]
Posts Tagged ‘new zealand’
13 Apr
Why the Government should ignore the People
The infamous “Section 92A” that so riled people up, was this (in full): 92A Internet service provider must have policy for terminating accounts of repeat infringers (1) An Internet service provider must adopt and reasonably implement a policy that provides for termination, in appropriate circumstances, of the account with that Internet service provider of a [...]
13 Apr
An actual problem with the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill
The most glaringly wrong part of the Amendment is this: 122PB Application of section 122C to cellular mobile networks (1) An IPAP need not comply with either of the obligations in section 122C(1) in respect of the services it provides by way of a cellular mobile network. (2) Subsection (1) is repealed with the close [...]
13 Apr
Guilt if not denied, not guilt on accusation
Once again, many New Zealanders are saying incredibly incorrect things about copyright law – most of them because they are parroting other people in a twisted Chinese whispers style of journalism. People are calling the latest changes “guilt on accusation”. All you have to do is actually read the amendment (which is not something that [...]
19 Feb
S92A, and other thoughts on the revised Copyright Act
There is quite a furore (e.g. #blackout) at the moment about the eminent arrival of the updated Copyright Act in NZ, pretty much all surrounding section 92A. 92A doesn’t appear in the official online copies (either HTML or PDF) – I don’t know if that is because it only takes effect from the end of the month, or [...]
22 Aug
iPhone works fine on prepay
The Vodafone NZ website clearly states that the iPhone (3G) will not be “available” on Prepay. For various reasons, I swapped the SIMs in my prepay Vodafone phone and our on-contract 3G iPhone last night. The iPhone worked without any problems at all with the Prepay SIM. Phone calls and SMS worked fine, as did [...]
8 Jul
Hardly news, but: Vodafone NZ sucks
They finally (hard to believe they waited this long) released their iPhone plans (the website is barely up at the moment – they own the second largest ISP in NZ, and can’t handle a bit of load!). I knew that the data would be expensive here, although I had a little hope when I saw [...]
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