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Copyright law re-do; sanity prevails

Posted in Intellectual Property, tagged , , , , on March 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I’ve mentioned before in my blog, the copyright law that was meant to come into force in my home country, and the relevance it had for international copyright protection efforts. Just as a brief reminder – the law was supposedly going to make it harder for people to breach copyright, but in the process it [...]

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Join the Black-out

Posted in Intellectual Property, Real Life, tagged , , , , , , on February 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This post is directly related to the one below it, but going a step further to try to raise awareness of the wider implications of this badly constructed law which effects New Zealander’s at this point in time, but could easily become a wider adopted policy that could hurt you directly too. Please help us. [...]

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Cutting off copy-right infringers at the ISP

Posted in Intellectual Property, Real Life, Second Life, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’ve only recently come across a blog entry about a law that is meant to come into force here very soon – one that makes ISPs cut off Internet access once a customer has infringed copyright more than once, via their Internet service. It’s seen as a highly controversial move, mostly turning on the issue [...]

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When internet dating goes so very wrong (and down-right scary)

Posted in Real Life, Second Life & Real Life Intersection, tagged , , , , on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday I happened upon a story on a local news site promoting a new book that warns people about meeting up with dates met online. Typical story, fine, you hear it all the time and we’re used to these warnings, it’s not really news. But today I found this: “Armed Police Raid Ends Internet Romance“. [...]

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Tui with a Kiwi accent! O.O

Posted in Real Life, tagged , , , , , , on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I better first (very briefly) explain that title: Both the Tui and the Kiwi are birds that are native to New Zealand. “Kiwi” is also slang for a New Zealander. Soooo, you’re about to hear a Tui with a Kiwi accent :p
The Tui usually has a very unique and beautiful song, I love Tui, but [...]

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Beached As Bro

Posted in Real Life, tagged , on November 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »

In NZ we currently seem to have decided the clip I’m about to show you is a local cult classic. It’s everywhere – I see t-shirts with it on in the main clothing stores and I saw it embedded in my students assignments too! O.O
It’s a clip that takes the shit out of how us [...]

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