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		<title>EFA member update: Filtering Fight</title>
		<link>http://shannon-oneill.net/2008/11/efa-member-update-filtering-fight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Dear EFA Supporter,</p>
<p>It has been a busy few weeks for Electronic Frontiers Australia as public outrage against the Government&#8217;s Internet censorship plan ignited around the country. EFA has served as a gateway for information on the scheme and a rallying point for opposition. Our revamped campaign website at http://nocleanfeed.com has seen an explosion in traffic, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Dear EFA Supporter,</p>
<p>It has been a busy few weeks for Electronic Frontiers Australia as public outrage against the Government&#8217;s Internet censorship plan ignited around the country. EFA has served as a gateway for information on the scheme and a rallying point for opposition. Our revamped campaign website at <a href="http://nocleanfeed.com/" target="_blank">http://nocleanfeed.com</a> has seen an explosion in traffic, and the EFA board has done dozens of interviews in print, on radio and television getting the word out to the Australian public. See below for just a sample.</p>
<p>The campaign is working. On the internet, letters to the editor pages and talk-back stations around the country, the Australian public are up in arms. MPs around the country are being flooded with calls, letters and emails demanding an end to the censorship plans. If we keep it up, sufficient pressure can be summoned to bring about a full-scale retreat from this ludicrous and undemocratic position.</p>
<p>EFA will not be easing up the pressure. We will be increasing our online presence, working with other community groups to organise activism, preparing policy analysis material for politicians and journalists, and spreading the bad news with targeted advertising. We will be lobbying selected politicians, so with your continued support we expect to be banging on the doors of power in Canberra regularly over the coming months.</p>
<p>There are a few things you can do to help keep momentum building.</p>
<p>- If you haven&#8217;t already, visit the campaign website, and write to your local MP telling them how upset you are.<br />
- Join our Action Alert mailing list here: http://lists.efa.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/alert and be ready to respond when a call for targeted action is made.<br />
- Follow us on Twitter for frequent campaign updates.<br />
- Volunteer. Got special skills in web or graphic design, online advertising, video production, community building or copy writing?<br />
- Got expertise in the subject you&#8217;d like to share? Willing to hit the phones? Let us know.<br />
- Send us feedback on the campaign (<a href="mailto:feedback@efa.org.au" target="_blank">feedback@efa.org.au</a>), and where you&#8217;d like to see EFA target its resources.<br />
- Make a donation (<a href="http://www.efa.org.au/support/donations/" target="_blank">http://www.efa.org.au/support/donations/</a>) so that we can continue to fund our ongoing activities.</p>
<p>We haven&#8217;t forgotten about our other campaigns, either. Our campaign site pushing for an R18+ category for computer games went live last week at <a href="http://www.r18games.com/" target="_blank">http://www.r18games.com</a>. As always, check EFA&#8217;s home page for latest news.</p>
<p>-The EFA Board</p>
<p>EFA in the news</p>
<p>Filtering out the fury: how government tried to gag web censor critics<br />
<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/labors-net-gag-worse-than-iran/2008/10/23/1224351430987.html" target="_blank">http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/labors-net-gag-worse-than-iran/2008/10/23/1224351430987.html</a></p>
<p>Filter to cause World Wide Wait<br />
<a href="http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24575125-15306,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24575125-15306,00.html</a></p>
<p>Net filters may block porn and gambling sites<br />
<a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/10/27/1224955916155.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1" target="_blank">http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/10/27/1224955916155.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1</a></p>
<p>Stranglehold on the Internet<br />
<a href="http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24561421-5006364,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24561421-5006364,00.html</a></p>
<p>Channel 7&#8217;s Morning program<br />
<a href="http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=xThNk0Vd4ws" target="_blank">http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=xThNk0Vd4ws</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>The honeymoon is over</title>
		<link>http://shannon-oneill.net/2008/01/the-honeymoon-is-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The new Australian government&#8217;s proposed Internet censorship regime has been widely and rightly condemned. Here&#8217;s EFA&#8217;s position:</p>
<p>Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc. (EFA)
www.efa.org.au</p>
<p>Media Release: 2 Jan 2008</p>
<p>Title:  EFA Attacks Clean-Feed Proposal</p>
<p>Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) today attacked a government plan, championed by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, that would mandate &#8220;clean feed&#8221; filtered Internet connections to all homes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The new Australian government&#8217;s proposed Internet censorship regime has been <a href="http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/12/31/internet-filtering-to-become-mandatory-in-australia/">widely</a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techfold/~3/208825513/">and</a> <a href="http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/12/31/new-govt-same-as-the-old-except-worse/">rightly</a> <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/30/australia-joins-china-in-censoring-the-internet/">condemned</a>. Here&#8217;s EFA&#8217;s position:</p>
<blockquote><p>Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc. (EFA)<br />
<a href="http://www.efa.org.au">www.efa.org.au</a></p>
<p>Media Release: 2 Jan 2008</p>
<p>Title:  EFA Attacks Clean-Feed Proposal</p>
<p>Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) today attacked a government plan, championed by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, that would mandate &#8220;clean feed&#8221; filtered Internet connections to all homes and schools. This scheme, which will supposedly censor the Internet of pornography and other &#8220;inappropriate material&#8221;, goes further than the Coalition&#8217;s previous policies, by requiring individuals to opt-out of the scheme rather than request filtering from their service provider.</p>
<p>&#8220;Waving the &#8217;save the children&#8217; flag may be good politics, but it ignores serious technological problems which will likely cause the proposed scheme to fail,&#8221; said EFA Chair Dale Clapperton. &#8220;Furthermore, Australia is supposed to be a liberal democracy where adults have the freedom to say and read what they want, not just what the Government decides is &#8216;appropriate&#8217; for them.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;These announcements smack of the condescending paternalism which contributed to the downfall of the Howard government,&#8221; Clapperton continued. &#8220;The proposals threaten the free speech rights of every Australian, and our concerns will not be silenced by Government sound bites equating free speech with access to child pornography.&#8221;</p>
<p>EFA has previously raised concerns about Australia joining North Korea, China and Burma in the club of nations who censor their citizens&#8217; access to the internet. While the Minister makes no apologies for this alarming development, he has given us little reason to put our faith in his bureaucrats to administer such a system competently, transparently and fairly.</p>
<p>&#8220;Who decides what is &#8216;appropriate&#8217; for adult Australians to read on the Internet, and according to what standards?&#8221;, asked Clapperton. &#8220;What will happen if the Government decides that information about abortion or gay marriage is &#8216;inappropriate&#8217; at the behest of Family First Senator Steve Fielding?&#8221;</p>
<p>In an attempt to dismiss the policy&#8217;s critics, Senator Conroy said &#8220;If people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornography, then the Rudd-Labor Government is going to disagree.&#8221; EFA notes, however, that child pornography is already illegal, and very unlikely to come to the attention of either the casual web user or the censors themselves. &#8220;senator Conroy&#8217;s attempt to equate freedom of speech with access to child pornography is a transparent attempt to deter criticism of this fundamentally flawed proposal,&#8221; said Mr Clapperton.</p>
<p>Implementation of the proposal, insofar as it is technically possible, would cause significant technical and administrative headaches for Australia&#8217;s Internet Service Providers. &#8220;This can only have the effect of making Australians&#8217; access to the internet slower and more expensive,&#8221; said Clapperton. &#8220;Given the Prime Minister&#8217;s election promise to focus on improving the nation&#8217;s access to broadband, the fact that the first measures put in place should do the exact opposite is as disappointing as it is bewildering.&#8221;</p>
<p>With billions of web pages available on the internet and changing every day, the crucial technical and administrative details of how the clean feed will be created have not yet been made available. Although the Minister has asserted that the Internet will not &#8220;grind to a halt&#8221;, he has yet to explain to Internet engineers how he plans to accomplish a feat that experts acknowledge would be very difficult. &#8220;Anyone with a better understanding of the Internet than the Minister will tell you this system simply will not work,&#8221; said Clapperton. &#8220;But a lot of taxpayers&#8217; money will be wasted if we try.&#8221;</p>
<p>EFA supports measures to provide filtering software to homes where it is requested, and to educate parents on monitoring their children&#8217;s online activities. &#8220;Unfortunately, ISP based filtering will not make the Internet safe for children, and may even cause harm in and of itself. If parents are deceived into believing that a &#8216;filtered&#8217; Internet service is safe for children, they will be less likely to take sensible precautions such as supervising their children while they use the Internet.&#8221;</p>
<p>At a time when all sides of politics acknowledge the importance of developing our information economy, EFA feels that this announcement sends the wrong message to the rest of the world. &#8220;The Coalition was rightly ridiculed by the rest of the world when they announced in the late 1990&#8217;s that they would censor Australian&#8217;s Internet access. The Coalition, at least, sensibly realised that their proposals were technologically infeasible. It seems that the current Minister with responsibility for the Internet has yet to learn that lesson.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; Ends &#8211;</p>
<p>Below is:<br />
- Background information<br />
- Contact details for media</p>
<p>Background:<br />
ABC News article on the announcement:</p>
<p>http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/31/2129471.htm</p>
<p>Past media releases by Senator Conroy about internet filtering:</p>
<p>http://www.senatorconroy.com/media95.html</p>
<p>http://www.senatorconroy.com/media70.html</p>
<p>About EFA:<br />
Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc. (&#8220;EFA&#8221;) is a non-profit national organisation representing Internet users concerned with on-line rights and freedoms. EFA was established in 1994, is independent of government and commerce, and is funded by membership subscriptions and donations from individuals and organisations with an altruistic interest in promoting online civil liberties.
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		<title>Mozart cover bands rake in the moolah</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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<p>Marcus Westbury
October 18, 2007</p>
<p>In the music scene there has always been a pretty strong division between those who play original music and those who are derisively, and sometimes unfairly, dismissed as covers bands. What&#8217;s the point of being in a band if you&#8217;re not playing your own songs? When was the last time that duo [...]]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>Marcus Westbury<br />
October 18, 2007</p>
<p>In the music scene there has always been a pretty strong division between those who play original music and those who are derisively, and sometimes unfairly, dismissed as covers bands. What&#8217;s the point of being in a band if you&#8217;re not playing your own songs? When was the last time that duo with a keyboard and a drum machine from your local RSL club had a breakthrough hit?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not that covers bands aren&#8217;t talented, don&#8217;t make good music, don&#8217;t entertain or even have a good time. Hell, put enough drinks in me and I&#8217;ll hit the dance floor to an &#8217;80s pop classic or wave a lighter with half a tear in my eye to, say, Flame Trees.</p>
<p>But no one seriously goes out of their way to suggest that covers bands are the most vital or important part of the music scene. Why then are covers bands &#8211; of the high-culture variety &#8211; receiving the bulk of arts funding?</p>
<p>An overwhelming amount of arts funding in Australia goes to organisations that either exclusively or primarily play covers. Think symphony orchestras, opera companies and state theatre companies that produce comparatively little in the way of original, innovative or even Australian work. Like classic hits radio, they are busting out the chart-toppers of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.</p>
<p>Confused? If you&#8217;re not sure what I&#8217;m talking about, grab yourself a copy of the Australia Council&#8217;s annual report. The nation&#8217;s cover bands, mostly the state-based symphony orchestras, collectively receive just under $50 million each year from the council.</p>
<p>Whether that figure seems average or outrageous would depend on the context that you choose to put it in. The context that I put it in is the $4.8 million pool that every single musician in Australia who isn&#8217;t in a symphony orchestra competes for every year. That&#8217;s more than a 10-fold disparity between the orchestras and everyone else combined.</p>
<p>The Sydney Symphony receives nearly $9 million each year. That is more funding than goes to all of Australia&#8217;s visual artists, or all of the nation&#8217;s writers and publishers, or all the dancers, or all the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, or all the community art practitioners.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong; I&#8217;m no heathen or unreconstructed postmodernist. Okay, I&#8217;m a bit of a heathen but I&#8217;ve never entirely got the postmodern thing. My problem is not that we still fund classical European culture, it&#8217;s just that we fund so bloody much of it and so very little of everything else.</p>
<p>My argument isn&#8217;t about form and it isn&#8217;t an extreme one. It&#8217;s about scale, equity and magnitude. I do think it would be a loss if Australians were to lose all connection with our vast and glorious European cultural heritage.</p>
<p>But Opera Australia receives more than $10 million a year from the Australia Council. Sure, opera is lavish, expensive and glorious but I simply cannot think of a single sensible, logical or sane reason why one opera company is valued roughly on par with more than 400 separate organisations supported by the music, dance, literature and inter-arts boards of the same organisation.</p>
<p>Great art to me creates a resonance and opens up possibilities; it isn&#8217;t the echoes of the past. It&#8217;s not something you reproduce proficiently. Art is made out of anger or curiosity or awe or beauty or because you&#8217;re in love or want someone to fall in love with you.</p>
<p>Artists don&#8217;t just preserve the past. They make new things from the sum total of human experience. They tell new stories and find new ways of telling stories from the tools and influences that they have around them.</p>
<p>Culture isn&#8217;t something that happened in Europe centuries ago that needs preservation. It&#8217;s actually all that messy, beautiful, inspiring and wonderful stuff that is happening around us right now. Arts funding should reward innovation not preservation and vibrancy over bureaucracy.</p>
<p>Most importantly, no one art form or institution &#8211; however regarded &#8211; should have its funding quarantined and its position privileged so that it is never tested against all the other possibilities to which its resources may better be put.</p>
<p>Marcus Westbury is the writer and presenter of Not Quite Art on Tuesday nights on ABC TV. marcus.westbury@gmail.com
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		<title>Mike Gravel for POTUS!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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<p>An explanation.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-sartwell5jul05,0,7282973.story?coll=la-news-comment">An explanation</a>.</p>
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		<title>Digital Democracy Unpacked: A Critical Mapping of Five Ideal Typical Discourses</title>
		<link>http://shannon-oneill.net/2007/05/digital-democracy-unpacked-a-critical-mapping-of-five-ideal-typical-discourses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 02:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Late notice, but this looks interesting:</p>
<p>SEMINAR</p>
<p>Digital Democracy Unpacked: A Critical Mapping of Five Ideal Typical Discourses</p>
<p>Dr Lincoln Dahlberg, School of Journalism and Communications
The University of Queensland</p>
<p>When: 1 June, 5-6.30pm
Where: UTS Broadway, Building 3, Level 2 (Room 210)</p>
<p>Digital democracy has become an increasingly popular topic among
academics, political commentators, and policy makers: there is much
talk about the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Late notice, but this looks interesting:</p>
<blockquote><p>SEMINAR</p>
<p>Digital Democracy Unpacked: A Critical Mapping of Five Ideal Typical Discourses</p>
<p>Dr Lincoln Dahlberg, School of Journalism and Communications<br />
The University of Queensland</p>
<p>When: 1 June, 5-6.30pm<br />
Where: UTS Broadway, Building 3, Level 2 (Room 210)</p>
<p>Digital democracy has become an increasingly popular topic among<br />
academics, political commentators, and policy makers: there is much<br />
talk about the potential of the Internet and other digital media<br />
enhancing democracy. There has also been plenty of action, with<br />
governments, civic organizations, universities and activists,<br />
investigating this potential and supporting digital democracy<br />
initiatives. All this commentary, research, policy making, and project<br />
work draws on a diversity of understandings of digital democracy.<br />
However, there is a lack of resources that clearly outline and examine<br />
this diversity. This paper undertakes an ideal-typical reading and<br />
critical evaluation of five digital democracy discourses and their<br />
variations, with the aim of bringing attention to the range of<br />
possibilities for democracy supported by digital media, and the<br />
advantages and disadvantages of these different possibilities.</p>
<p>Lincoln is a post-doctoral research fellow in the School of Journalism<br />
and Communication at The University of Queensland. He is co-editor of<br />
the journal New Zealand Sociology and of the collection Radical<br />
Democracy and the Internet (Palgrave, June 2007). Lincoln’s current<br />
research involves a critical investigation of the practices and<br />
meanings surrounding Internet use, with particular focus on the<br />
extension of democratic cultures. He can be contacted at:<br />
l.dahlberg@uq.edu.au</p>
<p>Hosted by: Research Initiative on International Activism:<br />
www.international.activism.hss.uts.edu.au<br />
James Goodman, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,<br />
University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007.<br />
Phone: (612) 9514 2714      Fax: (612) 9514 2332<br />
Email: james.goodman@uts.edu.au<br />
Web: www.international.activism.uts.edu.au</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Bailed Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 01:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>So TV weatherman Mike Bailey has decided to stand as a Labor candidate at the next federal election.</p>
<p></p>
<p>I always loved the dramatic way he&#8217;d say &#8216;the pressure is rising&#8217; when giving the barometric report. The pressure always seemed to be rising. For a long time I&#8217;ve had the idea of taking a year of his [...]]]></description>
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<p>So TV weatherman Mike Bailey has decided to stand as a Labor candidate at the next federal election.</p>
<p><img src="http://shannon-oneill.net/images/Bailey.jpg" alt="Bailey" /></p>
<p>I always loved the dramatic way he&#8217;d say &#8216;the pressure is rising&#8217; when giving the barometric report. The pressure always seemed to be rising. For a long time I&#8217;ve had the idea of taking a year of his barometric reports and turning them into a sound piece. But like most of my ideas for artworks (and blog posts) I couldn&#8217;t be bothered with the execution. Well, I have plenty of other things to be getting on with.</p>
<p>Here, have a song:</p>
<p>Luke Haines &#8211; Bailed Out (from Luke Haines is Dead)</p>
<p>Your star is descending<br />
Round here blindly<br />
Tell your dancing daughter<br />
That there&#8217;s no room<br />
on the wing<br />
We can bitch<br />
but it ain&#8217;t tinsel town<br />
Hey! Starchild<br />
Can&#8217;t dance<br />
Left out on a useless limb</p>
<p>This party will start<br />
To drag you down<br />
Slap your face<br />
and pull your hair</p>
<p>Bailed out, bailed out<br />
Bailed out, this skin is shed<br />
Bailed out, bailed out<br />
Bailed out, this thing is dead</p>
<p>I was in traction<br />
started off smiling<br />
Couldn&#8217;t help laughing<br />
I was astounded when<br />
They caught you unaware<br />
And some missionary said<br />
That this week<br />
we&#8217;ve got to shoot<br />
All the dancing girls<br />
And then replace them<br />
With satellites instead.</p>
<p>This party will start<br />
To drag you down<br />
Slap your face<br />
and pull your hair</p>
<p>Bailed out, bailed out<br />
Bailed out, this skin is shed<br />
Bailed out, bailed out<br />
Bailed out, this thing is dead</p>
<p>Like to see something change<br />
Around here, around there</p>
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		<title>Howard&#8217;s climate change policy:</title>
		<link>http://shannon-oneill.net/2007/04/howards-climate-change-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Pray for rain.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yep, that&#8217;ll fix it!</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Pray for rain.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yep, that&#8217;ll fix it!</p>
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		<title>TINA time</title>
		<link>http://shannon-oneill.net/2006/09/tina-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>This Is Not Art is on in Newcastle this weekend. It&#8217;s my favourite Australian festival &#8211; if you&#8217;ve never been, you should check it out. I&#8217;ll be doing a couple of talks and a couple of performances.</p>
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<p>This Is Not Art is on in Newcastle this weekend. It&#8217;s my favourite Australian festival &#8211; if you&#8217;ve never been, you should check it out. I&#8217;ll be doing a couple of talks and a couple of performances.</p>
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		<title>Buttress O&#8217;Kneel</title>
		<link>http://shannon-oneill.net/2006/09/buttress-okneel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>is a brilliant Australian sound collagist and radio producer, working in a similar style to Negativland, but with a more overtly political edge.</p>
<p>I first heard her work a few months ago on FBi Radio&#8217;s Sunday Night at the Movies, and found out today that she&#8217;s also participating in ABC Radio&#8217;s Figure in a Soundscape project [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>is a brilliant Australian sound collagist and radio producer, working in a similar style to <a href="http://negativland.com/">Negativland</a>, but with a more overtly political edge.</p>
<p>I first heard her work a few months ago on <a href="http://fbi.org.au/">FBi Radio</a>&#8217;s <em>Sunday Night at the Movies</em>, and found out today that she&#8217;s also participating in ABC Radio&#8217;s <em>Figure in a Soundscape</em> project that I&#8217;m involved in, so I finally got hold of her URLs.</p>
<p>Apart from her <a href="http://myspace.com/buttressokneel">MySpace page</a>, some of her work is available on CD and for download from the <a href="http://interwebmegalink.net">InterWebMegaLink</a>. Highly recommended! Especially if you like the <a href="http://adrianbertram.net/">League of Infinite Justice</a>.</p>
<p><img src="http://shannon-oneill.net/images/BOK.gif" /></p>
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		<title>New Aquarian</title>
		<link>http://shannon-oneill.net/2006/07/new-aquarian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2006 09:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve had a personality test here, but on Glen&#8217;s recommendation, I just did this one. And I got pretty much the same result as Glen too!</p>
<p></p>
<p>
This is your selected tribe:
New Aquarians </p>
<p>Incidence in Population
Proportion of Canadian population: 5 per cent
Proportion of Gen Xers: 14 per cent</p>
<p>Other Demographics
Mostly mirror the general [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve had a personality test here, but on Glen&#8217;s recommendation, I just did <a href="http://3sc.environics.net/surveys/3sc/main/3sc.asp">this one</a>. And I got pretty much the same result as Glen too!</p>
<p><img src="http://shannon-oneill.net/images/NewAquarian.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<blockquote><p>
This is your selected tribe:<br />
New Aquarians </p>
<p>Incidence in Population<br />
Proportion of Canadian population: 5 per cent<br />
Proportion of Gen Xers: 14 per cent</p>
<p>Other Demographics<br />
Mostly mirror the general population</p>
<p>Fundamental Motivations<br />
Social Justice and Experience-seeking</p>
<p>Key Values<br />
Adaptability<br />
Concern for the less fortunate<br />
Concern for the environment<br />
Respect for education<br />
Contempt for traditional authorities<br />
Hedonism</p>
<p>Words to Live By<br />
There is no being, only becoming<br />
Everything changed in Seattle<br />
No justice, no peace</p>
<p>Icons<br />
Singer Sarah McLachlan<br />
Author Naomi Klein<br />
Singer/activist Jello Biafra<br />
Rap-metal group Rage Against the Machine<br />
Author/activist John Zerzan<br />
Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar<br />
Dead Prez<br />
Technology Orientation</p>
<p>Money Orientation<br />
Making it: I&#8217;d never do work I didn&#8217;t believe in.<br />
Spending it: When I must consume at all, I consume with conscience.<br />
Saving it: I&#8217;m not saving much now, but when I do I&#8217;ll call the shots.<br />
Stealing it: No, thanks.<br />
Giving it away: Environmental and social causes.</p></blockquote>
<p>I can live with that, although I&#8217;m not about to start calling myself a New Aquarian (anyway, I&#8217;m a Sagittarian, fwiw).</p>
<p>If you take the test(/quiz/survey/whatever) let us know your result!</p>
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		<title>shake-up</title>
		<link>http://shannon-oneill.net/2006/06/shake-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2006 07:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Frigid is no longer, nor is the Frequency Lab. Disorientation is now only doing occasional events, and word on the street is that Pelt, Impermanent Audio and Synaesthesia are all about to end. What does this mean for Australian experimental music?</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Frigid is no longer, nor is the Frequency Lab. Disorientation is now only doing occasional events, and word on the street is that Pelt, Impermanent Audio and Synaesthesia are all about to end. What does this mean for Australian experimental music?</p>
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		<title>NSW FILM MAKERS GROUP Introduction newsletter</title>
		<link>http://shannon-oneill.net/2006/06/nsw-film-makers-group-introduction-newsletter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>To all NSW Film and TV Industry technicians,</p>
<p>Please read this letter of explanation from the NSW Film Makers Group regarding our concerns and objectives for the state of our industry.
This concerns you all, and your assistance will be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>NSW Film Makers Group update &#8211; June 1, 2006</p>
<p>A meeting was called 6 weeks ago when [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>To all NSW Film and TV Industry technicians,</p>
<p>Please read this letter of explanation from the NSW Film Makers Group regarding our concerns and objectives for the state of our industry.<br />
This concerns you all, and your assistance will be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>NSW Film Makers Group update &#8211; June 1, 2006</p>
<p>A meeting was called 6 weeks ago when a group of concerned technicians met informally at Canal Road Film Centre. The significant lack of work in all areas of film and television production including television advertising, and the restriction of NSW technicians working in Victoria, had brought this small group together. Several members of the group had written to government expressing the plight of the industry. The group has now had 6 meetings and this letter is to update and inform those interested in the outcome of those meetings. The group has been communicating with the Victorian Guild and as a consequence an open letter has been sent and distributed by the technicians booking agents from the Victorian Guild, to all NSW technicians. This letter explains that it was not the intention of the Victorian Guild to stop any interstate technicians from working in Victoria. The group is still pursuing the reasons why NSW technicians were not welcome to work in Victoria.<br />
The group has identified and recognized the core reasons why the film industry (including feature, TV and TVC&#8217;s) is in unprecedented depression. These are listed as follows -</p>
<p>* Support for the film industry by Governments is not effective.<br />
* Location costs &#8211; council charges, service charges and location fees.<br />
* Contractual arrangements for cast/extras.<br />
* Technicians&#8217; rates and conditions in Sydney.</p>
<p>The group also recognises that the problems that ail our industry are not unique to NSW. The group has discussed including all stakeholders -suppliers, actors, extras, writers, directors, producers, editors, post production houses, service providers, etc. &#8211; in helping with the endeavours of the group, because it is in everyone&#8217;s interest. The group recognizes that a technician only organisation will not be effective to try and solve the industries problems. Anyone or any organisation that is involved in the production of film and television, in any form, will be welcome to join the group. As this is a national issue, the group will also pioneer a nation wide filmmakers group, in conjunction with other state film groups.<br />
The group&#8217;s objectives are focusing on the following -</p>
<p>* Encourage all contributors and stakeholders in the film and television industry to join the group.<br />
* Create an electronic mechanism to allow the efficient and speedy communication of information to all those wishing to support the endeavours of the group.<br />
* Engage a professional lobbyist and strategists to assist in communicating the group&#8217;s needs to all members and Government bodies and agents.</p>
<p>Two weeks ago, the group decided on a name for the organisation &#8211; The NSW Film Makers Group. This should be formalized within the next few weeks. Last week, the group formalised its&#8217; vision statement and top 10 objectives. The group has been offered generous financial support from some technicians and suppliers. Canal Road Film Centre has very generously offered, not only considerable finances, but also office space and the address for the organisation. The group will also be advertising for a co-ordinater to assist with the formation of the organisation.<br />
The group has received the lists from the booking agents 3 week ago with the names of all of those technicians keen to show their support for the group. Thanks to all of you who have offered help and support.</p>
<p>The group apologises to all of those that have felt left out. To be a success, the group will need everyone&#8217;s support but please be patient. Once the website and internet forum are up and going we can all communicate directly and information, input and the hard work can all be realized with a great deal more efficiency and speed. The structure and the management of the organization have not been formalised. Once we are all communicating we can then all have a say on who is to represent this organisation and what we want to say.</p>
<p>David Nichols on behalf of Ray Brown, Tristran Milani, Reg Garside, Sean Conway, Jane Griffin, Penny Baldwin, Anna Howard, Simon Williams, Michael Adcock, Adrien Seffrin, Nikki Long, John Osmond, Gary Lincloln, Paul Booth, Michi Marosszeky, Moses Fotofili, Geoff Wharton, Michael Phillips, Paul Arnott, Sally Eccleston, Jeremy Fitzgerald, Brian Breheny, David Lee, Matt Toll, Warren Grieef, KenHazelwood, Dugal Campbell, Harry Dakanalis, Paul Thompson, Richard Mason.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Faggot Shit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>A short audio piece by UTS Honours student Tom Smith, made to accompany an essay.</p>
<p>Tom Smith &#8211; Faggot Shit: Homophobia and Male Fantasy in Orthodox Hip Hop (192kbps, 0:0:58, 1.33MB)</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a good example of how collage can be used to highlight certain patterns.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A short audio piece by UTS Honours student Tom Smith, made to accompany an essay.</p>
<p>Tom Smith &#8211; <em><a href="http://shannon-oneill.net/audio/Tom_Smith-Faggot_Shit.mp3">Faggot Shit: Homophobia and Male Fantasy in Orthodox Hip Hop</a></em> (192kbps, 0:0:58, 1.33MB)</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a good example of how collage can be used to highlight certain patterns.</p>
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		<title>Appropriation and Control</title>
		<link>http://shannon-oneill.net/2006/05/appropriation-and-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 03:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Thanks to Seb (who has been writing lots of interesting stuff about social networking, Web 2.0, etc. over at fresh + new) for telling me a few weeks ago about this paper, &#8220;You must be logged in to do that!&#8221; : Myspace and Control by Fred Scharmen, which discusses how young ppl use sites such [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks to <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/sebsnarl/">Seb</a> (who has been writing lots of interesting stuff about social networking, Web 2.0, etc. over at <a href="http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/"><em>fresh + new</em></a>) for telling me a few weeks ago about this paper, <a href="http://www.sevensixfive.net/myspace/myspacetwopointoh.html">&#8220;You must be logged in to do that!&#8221; : Myspace and Control</a> by Fred Scharmen, which discusses how young ppl use sites such as Myspace to escape (parental) control, only to be controlled in other ways.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about it here, but haven&#8217;t been in the mood for blogging &#8211; too many distractions. But today I came across a response to it by Anne Galloway, via an interesting post by Glen.</p>
<p>These issues are nothing new, as anyone who has been involved in tactical media, etc. knows. And we all know how punk and the counterculture before it were packaged and sold to the mainstream. I think the low point for me was when William Burroughs did those Nike TV commercials in the 90s.</p>
<p>There was a lot of discussion a few years ago about how tactical media should give way to strategic media (in fact the term &#8216;tactical media&#8217; is rarely used these days). I don&#8217;t know&#8230; I think both approaches are important. Maybe resistance is futile, but it is still meaningful for those doing it. The problem is with a dynamic which positions the subject as victim &#038;/or consumer. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve always loved those artists who seem to create their own world (e.g. the early work of Negativland). Another world is possible *right now*. &#8220;Just live it&#8221;. Of course there is a slippery slope from that to a disengagement with important political issues in the &#8216;real&#8217; world. Or the vision gets worn down by experience. It seems that the challenge is to successfully combine idealism with pragmatism, imagination with engagement, spontaneity with strategy. Or will that still inevitably feed the system?</p>
<p>Can the appropriation feedback loop be broken?</p>
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		<title>No fair use for Australia</title>
		<link>http://shannon-oneill.net/2006/05/no-fair-use-for-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 02:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Instead we get something called &#8216;flexible dealing&#8217; which allows for</p>
<p>1. Non-commercial uses by libraries, museums and archives (eg, to allow a museum to include extracts of historical documents in materials for visitors);
2. Non-commercial uses by educational institutions for the purpose of teaching (eg, to allow a school to put an out-of-date VHS documentary onto DVD);
3. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Instead we get something called &#8216;flexible dealing&#8217; which allows for</p>
<blockquote><p>1. <span style="font-weight: bold">Non-commercial uses by libraries, museums and archives </span>(eg, to allow a museum to include extracts of historical documents in materials for visitors);<br />
2. <span style="font-weight: bold">Non-commercial uses by educational institutions for the purpose of teaching </span>(eg, to allow a school to put an out-of-date VHS documentary onto DVD);<br />
3. <span style="font-weight: bold">Non-commercial uses for the benefit of people with disabilities</span> (eg, to allow a person with a print disability to convert a book they own into accessible text), and<br />
4. <span style="font-weight: bold">Parody and satire.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>More info at <a href="http://weatherall.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_weatherall_archive.html#114757817487241037"><em>Weatherall&#8217;s Law</em></a>.</p>
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		<title>I was sent this in an email. Amazing, if it&#8217;s true&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://shannon-oneill.net/2006/04/i-was-sent-this-in-an-email-amazing-if-its-true/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics: (Be sure to read to the end). It Must Be the music industry, rappers, the NBA &#8230;</p>
<p>36 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics: (Be sure to read to the end). It Must Be the music industry, rappers, the NBA &#8230;</p>
<p>36 have been accused of spousal abuse<br />
7 have been arrested for fraud<br />
19 have been accused of writing bad checks<br />
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses<br />
3 have done time for assault<br />
71, repeat 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit<br />
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges<br />
8 have been arrested for shoplifting<br />
21 currently are defendants in lawsuits. and<br />
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year</p>
<p>Can you guess which organization this is?<br />
Give up yet? . . . Scroll down,Good citizen!<br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br />
It&#8217;s the 535 members of the United States Congress.<br />
The same group of Idiots that crank out hundreds of new laws each year<br />
designed to keep the rest of us in line.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>now now in realtime</title>
		<link>http://shannon-oneill.net/2006/04/now-now-in-realtime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>My review of the NOW now festival for RealTime is now online (and in print). In the same issue is Ben Byrne&#8217;s response to Nigel Helyer&#8217;s &#8216;critique&#8217; of laptop music performance.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My review of <a href="http://thenownow.net">the NOW now</a> festival for <a href="http://realtimearts.net/">RealTime</a> is now online (and in print). In the same issue is <a href="http://avantwhatever.com/bb/">Ben Byrne</a>&#8217;s response to <a href="http://www.sonicobjects.com/">Nigel Helyer</a>&#8217;s &#8216;critique&#8217; of laptop music performance.</p>
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		<title>upcoming talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2006 02:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Some interesting free talks coming up in Sydney:</p>
<p>1) Key Concepts lecture series at Sydney Uni. A follow-up to last year&#8217;s Key Thinkers series which I couldn&#8217;t make due to work commitments. I&#8217;m looking forward to attending some of these.</p>
<p>Wednesday 3 May &#8216;Terra Nullius&#8217; Andrew Fitzmaurice
Wednesday 10 May &#8216;Nationalism&#8217; Glenda Sluga
Wednesday 17 May &#8216;Freedom&#8217; Duncan Ivison
Wednesday [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some interesting free talks coming up in Sydney:</p>
<p>1) <a href="http://www.rihss.usyd.edu.au/events/current/index.shtml#concepts">Key Concepts</a> lecture series at Sydney Uni. A follow-up to last year&#8217;s Key Thinkers series which I couldn&#8217;t make due to work commitments. I&#8217;m looking forward to attending some of these.</p>
<blockquote><p>Wednesday 3 May &#8216;Terra Nullius&#8217; Andrew Fitzmaurice<br />
Wednesday 10 May &#8216;Nationalism&#8217; Glenda Sluga<br />
Wednesday 17 May &#8216;Freedom&#8217; Duncan Ivison<br />
Wednesday 24 May &#8216;Truth&#8217; Huw Price<br />
Wednesday 31 May &#8216;Racism&#8217; Ghassan Hage<br />
Wednesday 7 June &#8216;Death&#8217; Jennann Ismael<br />
Wednesday 14 June &#8216;Globalisation&#8217; Raewyn Connell</p>
<p>Venue: NEW VENUE FOR 2006 Footbridge Theatre The University of Sydney</p></blockquote>
<div align="left">2) Cory Doctorow (of Boing Boing, Creative Commons, etc.) at Popcorn Taxi:</div>
<blockquote><p>Outspoken novelist, commentator and new-tech guru CORY DOCTOROW debates the future for filmmakers and media artists in this special event presented by Popcorn Taxi and the Australian Film Commission. Doctorow asks where does Hollywood get off, &#8220;with its antiquated business model, in treating the media user as a criminal with their draconian copyright laws?&#8230;Such laws limit the creative possibilities for artists and users.&#8221;An innovativeand brilliant thinker Doctorow proposes a revolutionary new model for media artists that defies the Digital Rights Management: &#8220;Technologies that seek to restrict the copying and use of digital works are wrong and wrong-headed&#8221;, Cory says. &#8220;Wrong because they don&#8217;t work, because they suppress creativity, and because they treat honest users like crooks. Wrong-headed because they seek to make digital works act as much as possibly like analog works. No DVD owner wants a way to do less with her movies, and companies that try to sell her technologies to do this deserve to go broke.&#8221;This debate is essential for any filmmaker and media artist who wants to give serious consideration to the future of their Work. The evening will include an interview and audience Q&#038;A conducted by MARCUS GILLEZEAU, filmmaker (Firelight) and a specialist in digital production technologies.</p>
<p>popcorn taxi<br />
Rated: R18+ EXEMPT from CLASSIFICATION<br />
Time: 7.00pmDate: Wednesday, April, 19th, 2006<br />
Where: Greater Union Bondi Junction<br />
Address: Level 6, 500 Oxford Street, Westfield Bondi Junction Entry: Free</p></blockquote>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2006 06:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Bettered by the borrower &#8211; copyrights and music composition</p>
<p>Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project</p>
<p>Famous Cannabis Users</p>
<p>Google Idol</p>
<p>THE MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY FOR CHILDS</p>
<p>The Mercury Theatre on the Air</p>
<p>Nyet</p>
<p>sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! (awesome software!)</p>
<p>SONY admits that CD/44.1PCM is inferior</p>
<p>Stagg Chili Recipes</p>
<p>Video Downloader</p>
<p>xTal &#8211; free mp3 DJ VSTi plugin</p>
<p> Zaatar Mix</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1510/is_n57/ai_6204091/print">Bettered by the borrower &#8211; copyrights and music composition</a></p>
<p><a href="http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/">Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project</a></p>
<p>Famous Cannabis Users</p>
<p>Google Idol</p>
<p><a href="http://postmoronic.blogspot.com/2006/03/marriage-of-cadmus-and-harmony-for.html">THE MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY FOR CHILDS</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.mercurytheatre.info/">The Mercury Theatre on the Air</a></p>
<p><a href="http://archive.blogsome.com/2006/03/24/democracy-nyet/">Nyet</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.popmodernism.org/scrambledhackz/?c=0">sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!</a> (awesome software!)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.irdial.com/scum.htm">SONY admits that CD/44.1PCM is inferior</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.staggchili.com/default.asp?req=recipes/">Stagg Chili Recipes</a></p>
<p>Video Downloader</p>
<p>xTal &#8211; free mp3 DJ VSTi plugin</p>
<p><a href="http://www.recipecottage.com/dry-mixes/zaatar01.html"> Zaatar Mix</a></p>
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		<title>FTA &amp; TPMs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2006 01:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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The report of the House of Representatives Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Committee on technological protection measures exceptions was released
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The report relates to Australia¹s obligations regarding technological
protection measures in the Australia­US Free Trade Agreement, and the
circumstances in which a person may be entitled to circumvent a
technological protection measure.

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The report of the House of Representatives Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Committee on technological protection measures exceptions was released
yesterday, 1 March 2006.

The report relates to Australia¹s obligations regarding technological
protection measures in the Australia­US Free Trade Agreement, and the
circumstances in which a person may be entitled to circumvent a
technological protection measure.

The report includes recommendations for exemption from circumvention
liability in a range of circumstances. In addition, it recommends that
technological measures intended to restrict the playing of DVDs and other
items to particular regions (region coding) be excluded from protection
under the Copyright Act.

Go to http://www.copyright.org.au/U26626 for a link to the report.

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