Comment Re:Is there something to understand (Score 1) 78
Original article author here: you have summarized the whole thing better than I did.
Original article author here: you have summarized the whole thing better than I did.
That’s according to a new report from Verified Voting, a group that advocates for transparency and accuracy in elections.
... A cornerstone of democracy, the secret ballot guards against voter coercion. But “because of current technical challenges and the unique challenge of running public elections, it is impossible to maintain the separation of voters’ identities from their votes when Internet voting is used,” concludes the report, which was written in collaboration with the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the anticorruption advocacy group Common Cause.
Meeting before a parliamentary committee this week, Recorded Music chief executive Damian Vaughan said his advocacy group supports an article in the TPP deal that standardizes the terms of protection of a work to the life of an author plus 70 years. (New Zealand is one of several participating nations that currently has a term of 50 years after death.) However, Vaughan thinks a proposed phase-in period for nations upgrading to 70 years is unnecessary and a costly burden for rights holders.
"It's not making copyright simple or easy to understand to the music user or the public whatsoever," he said, according to RadioNZ. "It is making the process significantly more complicated, and it's the rights organizations and the copyright holders who will be forced to administer this We note the cost we incur will be far higher than any perceived cost savings."
I'm more cynical. I think they are pulling a page from Walmart in an attempt to pay less in employee benefits and unemployment insurance. Just like the other companies that abuse part time status, people will be pressured into working more than part time off the books.
Boss
Bill: "But... but... they all work 50 hrs a week!"
Boss: "Thats not what their time cards say. They are clearly working 30hrs a week, same as you."
On the eighth day, God created FORTRAN.