Comments on: New Zealand leak: US-style copyright rules are a bad deal http://boingboing.net/2010/12/05/new-zealand-leak-us-.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 19:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Suds http://boingboing.net/2010/12/05/new-zealand-leak-us-.html#comment-958256 Suds Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-958256 To the Vikings who keep posting spam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE To the Vikings who keep posting spam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

]]> By: ADavies http://boingboing.net/2010/12/05/new-zealand-leak-us-.html#comment-958257 ADavies Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-958257 Why is this sort of back and forth even secret? It seems to me the public is better served when this kind of diplomatic discussion is held out in the open. (But then I guess that's the point of Wikileaks.) Why is this sort of back and forth even secret? It seems to me the public is better served when this kind of diplomatic discussion is held out in the open.

(But then I guess that’s the point of Wikileaks.)

]]> By: DarthVain http://boingboing.net/2010/12/05/new-zealand-leak-us-.html#comment-958525 DarthVain Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-958525 This must be the USA love of "letting the market figure things out" and allowing "capitalism to control"... or wait, not it isn't... This is the US government being paid to protect certain corporate interests and trying to foist their corruption onto the rest of the world. This must be the USA love of “letting the market figure things out” and allowing “capitalism to control”…

or wait, not it isn’t… This is the US government being paid to protect certain corporate interests and trying to foist their corruption onto the rest of the world.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/12/05/new-zealand-leak-us-.html#comment-958085 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-958085 As a New Zealander, if any government was going to bend over for this nonsense, it is definitely this one. As a New Zealander, if any government was going to bend over for this nonsense, it is definitely this one.

]]> By: Larry7 http://boingboing.net/2010/12/05/new-zealand-leak-us-.html#comment-958125 Larry7 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-958125 The US is the biggest bully in the playground- as we've all known for years- why can't they just f-ck off and leave the world alone? Respect for the sovereignty of other countries seems to be a concept completely out of the realm of US understanding... The US is the biggest bully in the playground- as we’ve all known for years- why can’t they just f-ck off and leave the world alone? Respect for the sovereignty of other countries seems to be a concept completely out of the realm of US understanding…

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/12/05/new-zealand-leak-us-.html#comment-958138 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-958138 Hi Anon 1. As an Orstrayn who has always thought of NZ as Orstraya with a konshes then I lose hope for both of us. Hi Anon 1.

As an Orstrayn who has always thought of NZ as Orstraya with a konshes then I lose hope for both of us.

]]> By: pyalot http://boingboing.net/2010/12/05/new-zealand-leak-us-.html#comment-958140 pyalot Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-958140 "protection for protection" is a pleonasm and a paradox, and should not find itself in any text of law. Such legislation is extremely harmful because it forms a electrolegisoftware contraption where half of the machine is implemented as vague law, and the other half is supplied by an arbitrary private party. This contraption violates the separation of power and contradicts the very meaning of "law" because it is a unified vehicle for arbitrary unknowable rules (made up by private parties), enforcement and prosecution in one step. “protection for protection” is a pleonasm and a paradox, and should not find itself in any text of law.

Such legislation is extremely harmful because it forms a electrolegisoftware contraption where half of the machine is implemented as vague law, and the other half is supplied by an arbitrary private party. This contraption violates the separation of power and contradicts the very meaning of “law” because it is a unified vehicle for arbitrary unknowable rules (made up by private parties), enforcement and prosecution in one step.

]]> By: turn_self_off http://boingboing.net/2010/12/05/new-zealand-leak-us-.html#comment-958659 turn_self_off Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-958659 The basic thing here is that ever since US consumer production became globalized, the only real exports USA have left is IP and weapons. The basic thing here is that ever since US consumer production became globalized, the only real exports USA have left is IP and weapons.

]]> By: TEKNA2007 http://boingboing.net/2010/12/05/new-zealand-leak-us-.html#comment-958151 TEKNA2007 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-958151 *cough* <i>corporate welfare</i> *cough* *cough* corporate welfare *cough*

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