Cabinet to look at Section 92A copyright law proposals, and the NBR on legal movie options
RadioNZ points out that today Minister Simon Power will take the revised Section 92A proposal to Cabinet. Robert Smith has a timely piece in the NBR about downloads, “Despite widespread bleating about the rise of piracy, there are still plenty of people who don’t bother downloading. If there is one glimmer of hope out of those ubiquitous warnings, it’s that cinema admissions are holding strong in the face of piracy. Sky City Entertainment recently revealed admissions to its New Zealand cinemas for the first quarter of the year were up by 17% and the industry is looking to 3D films for further growth [...] If, for some odd reason, somebody in New Zealand needed to see Guy Ritchie’s movie Revolver, the only way is to import it from overseas [..] It is possible to purchase a copy of the movie through an international web retailer, or the Ritchie fan could wait until it showed up on television at three o’clock on a Sunday morning, or they could just download it in less than an hour. If it’s that easy and simple to do it illegally, why is it so difficult to do legitimately?“
Read more at the NBR.
