Suddenly realising that the 0018 train is my only remaining option. Oops.
Hah! Guitarist has an iPad on his music stand, checks his Facebook during the 8-bar break before his solo. Mai pen rai krub.
@SnarkyPlatypus Shoosh.
@ApostrophePong It is the ultimate sentimental T-pop, of course.
Sentimental T-pop FTW. instagram.com/p/rHdTBAiFht/
Hey @ApostrophePong, the band is starting its set at the C Bar. instagram.com/p/rHbQNaCFvD/
@joshgnosis Indeed, and Hutley has pointed out what the A-G’s proposals do and don’t say.
@joshgnosis I do feel as if I’ve been teleported back two years, but buried amongst the fear and fighting words there are some nuances.
@joshgnosis More that if the illegal sites are top of the search results, that’s where people will go.
As I said, a pep rally. Here’s @CopyrightAgency’s calls to action. #copdis instagram.com/p/rG002gCFna/
Lisle is now wrapping up. This event is very much a pep rally for those fighting the tech industry. #copdis
Hutley says there’s much misunderstanding of the A-G’s discussion paper. [And she’s probably quite right.] #copdis
The other proposal is about escalation of warnings, with ISP cooperation. Not disconnection etc. #copdis
So, Hutley says, the A-G’s proposals include the idea of court orders to have known illegal sites removed / blocked. #copdis
Hutley: The illegal downloaders don’t necessarily want to illegally download, they’re just a little bit lazy and kind of confused.” #copdis
Hutley notes that even the Australian government advertises on these sites, though they wouldn’t know it. #copdis
“What we want is disruption,” Hutley says, disruption of the illegal activities. #copdis
Hutley is zooming through some numbers re the Australian music acts on international illegal sites. All there,large acts and small. #copdis
Hutley shows a chart which saays there’s 1.4M users in Australia amongst the top 5 illegal download or streaming services. #copdis
@cathywilcox1 I’m at this event copyright.com.au/assets/documen… (PDF) at @CopyrightAgency. I did record his speech.
Hutley: For music, this is not about price and access. There are 30+ licensed music services in Australia. 500_ around the world. #copdis
This is the year that in Australia the digital sales outstripped physical sales, on ARIA figures. #copdis
Hutley: “When you use the word ‘piracy’, it’s a caricature.” It gives the impression that no-one is harmed. [Does it?] #copdis
Hutley: “I want to talk to you about killing the word ‘piracy’… It’s about the creator’s right to choose [how their work is used].#copdisis
Next up, Vanessa Hutley, general manager of Music Rights Australia. #copdis
Foyle notes that cartooning is not a thing that’ll make you a living, unless you’re at the very top of the game. [Like many others?] #copdis
Foyle’s description of the joys of working freelance and trying to get paid would be familiar to many freelancers. #copdis
Foyle says in the 1960s you just needed pencil and paper, now $10k of tech. “Very expensive” to get into. [Yeah? Talk to a dentist.] #copdis
According to Foyle, at the height, star newspaper cartoonists could earn $200k a year. Now, not so much. #copdis
“Cartoonists losing control of their artwork started to happen with the arrival of photocopying,” says Foyle. #copdis
Foyle is running through a history of the tech for reproducing cartoons, starting with cave paintings. #copdis
AstroKatie A baby pangolin is called a pangopup and I have now died of cute. australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura… pic.twitter.com/jDL6u2Oz93
Next up, Lindsay Foyle journalist, cartoonist and former deputy editor of “The Bulletin” #copdis
Birmingham compares a (faux) libertarian revolution with a Hobbesian squalor. [And @JohnBirmingham confirms this will be up soon.] #copdis
I’m assuming that @JohnBirmingham will post this well-crafted part of his speech later, and I shall link to it. #copdis
Birmingham describes copyright not as an arcane restriction but as “a codification of respect”. #copdis
Birmingham mentions a writer of tech books, $140 each. One sold 6000 copies, torrented 140,000 times. #copdis
Next up, @JohnBirmingham, who says this is something he gets passionate about. #copdis
Because, @ddonahoo @mpesce, you won’t qualify if you’re not looking for work, have an advance etc. #copdis
ddonahoo @stilgherrian @mpesce Why aren’t Australian authors applying for the dole. It is worth around $13K a year…better income than the average?
Rodriguez discusses the copyright issues of Richard Prince’s “Graduation” au.phaidon.com/agenda/art/art… #copdis
Rodriguez notes that existing statutory licensing system for education was in response to a 1970s disruptive tech, the photocopier. #copdis
Rodriguez: Average income for an author in Australia is $11k a year, hasn’t increased over recent years. #copdis
Next up, Zoë Rodriguez, who does legal at @CopyrightAgency. #copdis
Lisle cites numbers from “The Effect of Graduated Response Anti-Piracy Laws on Music Sales” (Mar 2012) techpolicyinstitute.org/files/smith_da… (PDF) #copdis
Lisle says the two groups have things in common though, such as a love of entertainment etc. [Will get list later.] #copdis
One of Bevan Lisle’s slides, us and them, tech people versus copyright people. instagram.com/p/rGtsEPiFhJ/ #copdis
Lisle seems to be creating a straw man called “tech community” as the enemy which says “If you disagree, you don’t get technology”. #copdis
Opening speaker is Bevan Lisle from @CopyrightAgency, characterising the current situation as a legacy of the dotcom exuberance. #copdis
At the @CopyrightAgency seminar copyright.com.au/assets/documen… (PDF), sitting next to the dangerous @JohnBirmingham #copdis
@oberonsghost Ah yes, it’s that kind of day.
@0x1C Ibuprofen. My liver gets enough of a workout.
How excellent is codeine?
That’s quite enough about pigs now, thank you.
So How cool is Tor, eh?
Davidramli Breaking: Members of Senator Ricky Muir’s Aust Motoring Enthusiast party have passed a motion to expel him afr.com/p/national/mot…
@TheFailedProjek They sneak in through open windows at night and, while you sleep, they suck out your brains through their long beaks.
@TheFailedProjek Why do you sniff the ibis?
@cathywilcox1 Seek medical attention.
@cathywilcox1 It’s not quite that romantic. And these are pretty skanky pigeons.
RT @DeptOfAustralia: Thursday @DeptOfAustralia at @crikey_news! crikey.com.au/2014/07/31/the… [Yay for Thursday…]
RT @scottcarson1957: Memo drawn form Anthony Lake’s State Dept file. Stealth humor. pic.twitter.com/Q7JF2q36YP [Metaphysical violations!]
Now there are pigeons fucking RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.
@jplonie Wot?
@SwiftOnSecurity Suddenly everything makes sense.
Ibis is on the move.
RT @GuardianAus Australian PM calls for Gaza ceasefire ‘immediately, by both sides’ trib.al/G2s9xXn [Yeah, you tell ‘em, Tone.]
Pain.
Me at @crikey_news earlier: “Applying for 40 jobs? There’ll be an AppApp for that” crikey.com.au/2014/07/31/app…
NewtonMark Governments cutting costs blindly lead to ineffective government agencies. arseh.at/4knz Who on earth would have seen that coming?
“Copyright review adds to internet regulation mess”, writes @SaysSmithy afr.com/p/technology/c…
Thu plan, v3; Write for @crikey_news; Cisco cybering (done); 1530 @CopyrightAgency seminar copyright.com.au/assets/documen…; train to Wentworth Falls.
@DeptOfAustralia That’s very good, you know.
Crossing the Harbour, again instagram.com/p/rGQ4rSiFrQ/
Me at @crikey_news: “Applying for 40 jobs? There’ll be an AppApp for that” crikey.com.au/2014/07/31/app…
The Cisco Cyber Day is not ending at 1100 as we’d been told. Another speaker starting. Emailing various people to rearrange the schedule.
Cisco’s Cyber Day for the media is about to begin… instagram.com/p/rGAaPpCFh2/
Thu plan, redraft; Write for @crikey_news (done); 0930 Cisco Cyber Day, St Leonards; 1145 Apple Store; arvo TBA; train to Wentworth Falls.
Crossing the Harbour, with a dirty window instagram.com/p/rF6_lSCFqc/
RT @jeamland So, umm, @stilgherrian..pic.twitter.com/Gmph1Bgrlmlm [Excellent! Pin@dobese@gattacac@jturner_ibrsrs and everyone.]
@jonoabroad I guess the answer to that is whether you still see that error at my website.
@timb07 I have no idea what goes through @JohnBirmingham’s mind.
@JohnBirmingham Don’t forget to forget the pants.
tinderfessions Bitching about “fat” people on tinder is like bitching about finding water in a lake #getoveryourself - Ally
GreenJ also, if my name was Ed Balls, I too would be drawn irresistably to public life.
SavedYouAClick Yep. RT @VICE: We Asked an Expert if the Ebola Virus Will Kill You
umairh Only Marx can save us now. Richard Marx.
Thu plan, draft: Re-schedule; 0930 Cisco Cyber Day, St Leonards; 1145 Apple Store; afternoon TBA; train to Wentworth Falls; collapse.
Thursday. The month will end, and there shall be a Reckoning. They will discover everything. Your fear is justified. Thursday.
Wednesday is about to end. You’ve wasted it, pretty much. Fool.
@TheFailedProjek I couldn’t possibly comment.
@TheFailedProjek No, just more tweets.
MT @SnarkyPlatypus: Is there some kind of obnoxious atheist attention-seeking competition I am unaware of?
tinderfessions Swiped right cause I thought he was a cop. Wasn’t a cop but said he could easily get ahold of some cuffs and a baton. BEST. SEX. EVER. -Kris
RT @johnemcintyre: Slang make you cray cray? There’s a remedy. bsun.md/1tsFAjB [Nice work, Mr McIntyre, as (nearly) always.]
@robcorr Ah yes, I should have read @JustinianNews’ comments more carefully before I spoke. I am an arsehat.
@robcorr WikiLeaks prone to exaggeration? No, that can’t be right.
@robcorr I see. There could hypothetically be limits, such as “information derived from or prepared for the purposes of” some thing.
@robcorr So, hypothetically, “publication or otherwise, of any information … that reveals, implies, suggests or alleges” would seem broad.
@robcorr I have no idea what you’re talking about. I am just curious about a hypothetical situation. Obviously.
@TheFailedProjek “Invested”, you mean.
Excellent, @abc730 @drunkenmadman, that’s so sweet it tastes like sugar.
drunkenmadman “So microscopic it couldn’t be seen by the naked eye”
THAT’S WHAT ‘MICROSCOPIC’ FUCKING MEANS FOR FUCK’S SAKE
(@abc730, DRIVING ME MENTAL)
@robcorr If I said, hypothetically, “That global leaking place has some interesting information.” This is presumably uncharted territory.
@robcorr Indeed, but I’m thinking the other way around. A verbal description which is sufficient to allow material to be found.
@TheFailedProjek It usually does, though. The trick is turning the ideas into an actual script. Or at least a script outline and treatment.
RT @TheFailedProjek: Someone let the crazies out tonight. [So, like every other night then.]
RT @swearyanthony: Fuck dancing on the line [Exactly. Dance on six lines. All night.]
tinderfessions Just had a 3some with 2 college basketball players that are a combined 14 feet. I’m 5’1. It was awesome - Lisa
“WikiLeaks gag order: open justice is threatened by super-injuctions”, writes the inimitable @JustinianNews theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
@JustJimWillDo @jdub And earlier @asherwolf linked to this legal opinion. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
smurray38 Apropos of nothing, an empirical study of 1501 suppression orders granted in Victorian courts between 2008 and 2012 sydney.edu.au/law/slr/slr_35…
cox_tom My biggest hope for the piece I’ve just written for The Guardian is that nobody edits the phrase “narcissistic spunkferrets” out of it.
evgenymorozov The Turing Tests of the Future: Can the computer distinguish an advertorial from an actual article? Oh wait, it probably produced both.
@jdub This is my point. I wonder why people are saying this so much today. It’s all very curious.
@indigoid I have no idea what you’re talking about. I’m just curious about a hypothetical legal issue. Obviously.
RT @DJBentley: Every number is BULLSHIT pic.twitter.com/WUO1OCeJYM [Numbers are Hitler.]
tinderfessions Some guy told me my pussy probably smells like hairspray because I said I wouldn’t fuck him..I’m a hairdresser. - Sammi
Here’s a curious legal question. Is there a legal distinction between the URL wikileaks.org and saying “Have a look at WikiLeaks”?
@elronxenu @swearyanthony Indeed. I’m not trying to visualise “half an arsehole”, but thinking I should probably stop.
@shadowcyclist … but that’s about how well they’re cutting their deals, not about infringement. It’s film and TV’s turn to grow the fuck up.
@shadowcyclist Exactly. The music industry now has another problem: licensing to streaming services so cheaply the artists get bugger all…
swearyanthony Gotta say as well as Pt Arthur and East Timor, I now rate Howard for his determined effort to keep Brandis, SC (Shitcunt) from the ministry
@shadowcyclist Why thank you. That PwC report is being cited across the “copyright industries” as gospel today too. Pure propaganda.
cracked Drug dogs are inaccurate … and racist. 6 Popular Crime Fighting Tactics (That Don’t Actually Work) - bit.ly/1nTq3RD
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: Quadrant having a go at the budget, even. What strange times we live in. [It’s just the CIA getting bored and trolling.]
@jonoabroad Thanks. One site is working properly, I think. The other not so much.
Arguing with SSL certificates. Losing.
MT @tomsymonds: New charges re allegations of hacking by News of the World’s Features Desk. Recent trial was about hacking by News Desk.
MT @tomsymonds: BBC told police have informed 1300 they are on list of targets in newly identified phone hacking investigation. [Oh dear.]
Current keywords: @coriole Sangiovese.
seanparnell BREAKING: @OAICgov overrules A-G George Brandis’ #FOI advisers over decision to block access to incoming briefs: pic.twitter.com/xtCbYA5ET5
@AbstractCode There is that. Unfortunately there’s an event I go to each year which block-books Jetstar. I endure it, somehow.
“Why Personal Branding is a Sham”, writes @WillYakowicz. Hear hear. inc.com/will-yakowicz/…
@JohnBirmingham I’m not sure that it does. Nevertheless I’ll try to make it.
@GreenJ Swimming and shooting combined? So you couldn’t call that sport the dryathlon.
I don’t see why Jetstar thought the words “poorly chosen”. You need fuckin’ drugs to put up with the passengers that airline attracts.
Good to see @TIME maintaining a grip on quality journalism.
carolduncan Well, you know. “@TIME: Australian flight attendant reminds cabin to flush drugs down toilet ti.me/1uG14eb”
@joshgnosis You dropped the mic, Josh? Wow.
RT @spoonybear: My favourite slide so far today via the dude from Netflix #admaforum pic.twitter.com/Z3G1zNK3A2 [This is a fine sentiment.]
pourmecoffee That is the point. RT @itvnews: Heavy drinking during middle age can lead to memory loss in later life, study shows itv.co/1k69yXv
Wondering whether to change my plan for tomorrow afternoon to catch up with @JohnBirmingham at the @CopyrightAgency event.
Now a press release from @CopyrightAgency citing that very same PwC report. Everybody got the hymn sheet then. copyright.com.au/assets/documen… (PDF)
I am craving a curry. I suspect I will regret the next decision I am about to make.
My thoughts on the government’s copyright discussion paper, written Monday based on the copy leaked to @crikey_news. zdnet.com/beware-the-spi…
@juhasaarinen I started looking at the report the other day. zdnet.com/beware-the-spi… It’s just a matter of drilling down into the numbers.
Still, you’d think that the government would at least TRY to sort out some sort of plausible deniability. Don’t they watch “House of Cards”?
I guess the Foxtel thing answers @SenatorLudlam’s question about @TurnbullMalcolm though, so that’s good. scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/content/media-…
benpobjie Hey I wrote this about sexual scholar Bernard Gaynor benpobjie.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/bernar…
So the government and Foxtel issue press releases about copyright on the same day citing the same PwC report. How coincidence.
@oberonsghost @zerogeewhiz Idea: Passengers given an app that allows them to vote on who gets hurled into the path of the next coal train.
Unexpectedly, being upgraded. Which helps.
“For the safety and comfort of other passengers, please punch yourself in the face.”
IF YOU ARE NOT ALIGHTING AT ANY OF THE NEXT THREE STATIONS THEN YOU SHOULD STAND IN A SPRAWL DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE DOORS.
BEING INCREDIBLY FUCKING TOLERANT OF THE SLOW PEOPLE AT TOWN HALL STATION BECAUSE I AM SO FUCKING PATIENT.
Me at @crikey_news today: “‘Con game’: native advertising only works when it’s hidden” [$, free trial] #admaforum crikey.com.au/2014/07/30/con…
@jonoabroad “I was just following orders,” eh?
The orbit of Mercury will be a factor in my ability to get to my hotel tonight. A huge, throbbing factor.
“Brandis claims consumer interests to factor in copyright review”, writes @dobes zd.net/1uG0flH
@chris_stevenson Oh this is so true. Sigh.
@cafuego Hah! Well, I can’t help you further there. I’ve had Skype work just find for ages.
@cafuego Hmmm. Well, when recording, I had lock-ups when Time Machine kicked in to run a backup. Turned off auto-backups.
@cafuego I do. Do you use Ecamm’s Call Recorder for Skype, by any chance?
RT @staticsan: #reelsatheincompetance An ice moon prison is too good for those programmers. [True. It’s a thing I need to do, but can’t.]
Registration forms that ask you to create a password, then tell you it’s not valid, but don’t say what the actual rules are. #IceMoonPrison
Me at @crikey_news: “‘Con game’: native advertising only works when it’s hidden” [$, free trial] #admaforum crikey.com.au/2014/07/30/con…
Just recorded a lovely half-hour podcast with Bob Garfield @Bobosphere about everything media. Coming next week at corruptednerds.com
Wed plan: Write for @crikey_news (done); pop through ADMA Global Forum adma.com.au/adma-global-fo…; @5at5daily; review TV scripts; evening TBA.
@nancycato1 Oh, the room wasn’t that expensive…
Story filed for @crikey_news, despite my computer utterly dying again. Apple Store appointment booked for tomorrow morning. Sigh.
Contortionist’s dream bathroom instagram.com/p/rDbALMCFkH/
OK, writing now. Shoosh.
SECTION 313 ALL THE THINGS!
chrisberg all of twitter to go to jail for a reason i can’t superdisclose
RT @expectproblems: Genius. pic.twitter.com/MyYqJUZHMl [Finally, it’s packaged properly for the bedroom.]
@stufromoz Look more closely.
“Former NSA chief to profit from patented hacker detection tech, charging clients $1M a month”, writes @xeni boingboing.net/2014/07/29/for…
BoingBoing Former NSA chief to profit from patented hacker detection tech, charging clients $1M a month boingboing.net/2014/07/29/for… pic.twitter.com/8PjUsK5ZKQ
alexpmclennan I’ll ask, because nobody else has. What does everyone mean when they speak of data? Seems to be a a vague consensus. #admaforum
@leslienassar @drsimmo @SnarkyPlatypus @stufromoz Yeah, see, this is why they shouldn’t let either of us on TV.
@stufromoz @drsimmo @SnarkyPlatypus Excellent work. I’m adopting that soundbite immediately.
@drsimmo @SnarkyPlatypus @stufromoz Maybe. [Shrugs.] As I’ve said on TV, I wouldn’t trust Facebook as far as I could spit a cow.
@drsimmo @SnarkyPlatypus @stufromoz Heh. Probably not. But that figure is from Facebook.
“@Bobosphere: Journalists, publishers, agencies and broadcasters are all fucked”, reports @AdNews adnews.com.au/news/bob-garfi… #admaforum
@SnarkyPlatypus @drsimmo @stufromoz At any given moment, there’s on average around 1500 things that could be in your Facebook news feed.
Wed plan, draft: Write for @crikey_news; pop through ADMA Global Forum adma.com.au/adma-global-fo…; @5at5daily; review TV scripts; evening TBA.
★ Alexis BOOBS Perkins sent you a WINK ★
@SnarkyPlatypus Mes avocats seront en contact.
@SnarkyPlatypus Je n’étais pas là et vous ne pouvez pas prouver quoi que ce soit.
Wednesday. Do you hear that faint hissing sound? That is your soul, slowly leaking away. Wednesday.
Everything is, or was, a mistake.
OH: “I dunno, maybe you should imagine yourself with a banana.”
Oh FFS.
Definitely or not.
Or not.
This will end well.
stafo86 I make good life decisions pic.twitter.com/40peBclk3i