Sorry, but you are unable to access CokeTunes. To access this site you need:DRM is about business models, as the DMCA has illustrated in the US. There have been a number of unintended, business model related, and adverse, consequences, of controlling tinkering and communication. Everything from garage door remotes to printer toner refills have rushed to avail themselves of the competitive advantage the legislation imparts.
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While our Bill may be more wisely framed, it is still protecting a business model that is exploitative of more than it benefits.
DRM is the ultimate tail wagging the dog, where a minor, some might argue trivial aspect of culture and production is setting the rules for all of us. The inevitable vulnerability of placing the safe in the lounge will not be remedied by applying tax-payer funded enforcement in the hands of content proprietors and the State.
After all, once we can control "premium content," then there'll be enough incentive to extend it to "spam," "hate speech," and then, perhaps the utlimate incumbent, the State, will find a good reason to control a lot more communication.
Thus the changes proposed in The Copyright Amendment Bill, reassuringly described as seeking
"to achieve outcomes benefiting New Zealand’s society as a whole."Much like the oft opposed parallel importing regulations that were extensively opposed in select committee, repealed, then re-instated after two rounds of "consultation."
Its not going to benefit any but a small proportion of New Zealander's and they are less likely to be "creatives" as it is the proprietors of the material, and it will impact on activities which have not been much more than the irritant "shrinkage" (the fee the recording industry charges its artists for breakage of celluloid disks, yeah right) but not to any degree.
Such legislation must have a special appeal at a time when NZ appears to be benefiting producers, and NZ, but change is inevitable in all industries and if enforcement of old models becomes more expensive than the revenue that could arise from newer ones, who is this for? Yes, comfortable incumbents who find it easier to sway legislators than customers.
Copyright is a deal we struck when it was more valuable for us to cede that right to create a state enforced monopoly in distribution. Now we all copy, perhaps we should revisit the deal rather than prop up constraints that no longer exist, in order to sustain those who solve a problem (creation and distribution) that largely no longer exist.