On Stuff.co.nz today RIANZ made another ridiculous exaggeration saying that “if you’re delaying it for two years you might as well delay it for three lifetimes” and that those who said ‘copyright infringement over mobile networks was low were incorrect’. RIANZ have offered no statistics to back their claims, and yet again they have not shown how they were even capable of reaching this opinion. They’d simply prefer if you took their word for it, and that this view would affect how laws were made in New Zealand.
The issue raised by RIANZ was that a government report said “the speed and cost of mobile broadband meant there was relatively little copyright infringement on mobile networks, and the costs of compliance would outweigh the benefits” so there’s a recommended delay until 2013.
The cost of data transfer on cellular networks in NZ means it’s very unlikely folks are using it for any file sharing, with or without copyright holder permission. It would be too expensive to bother with.
The only reason would be convenience, not to avoid paying for it — which really means someone is missing a business oppourtunity.
They perhaps mean people putting ringtones on their phones… or maybe not paying public performance fees when someone on the bus hears your ringtone.
I have no reason to doubt RIANZ, other than that this is a very self serving argument, and they’ve admitted in the past just making shit up such as their “copyright infringement decreased during the blackout campaign”..
For now I conclude they made this up – which doesn’t mean they’re wrong, just that they make shit up.
Let’s take them up on their suggestion and delay this for three lifetimes.
@Olly
We can’t delay this for three lifetimes, that would be like thirty lifetimes!
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5769/125/
The RIANZ wants you to take their work for it…….Could it be that they’re being funded by a source they’re not willing to reveal?