Comments on: Anatomy of a smear http://it.gen.nz/2009/03/18/anatomy-of-a-smear/ Writings on technology and society from Wellington, New Zealand Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:10:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brett Roberts http://it.gen.nz/2009/03/18/anatomy-of-a-smear/comment-page-1/#comment-1506 Brett Roberts Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:12:16 +0000 http://it.gen.nz/?p=559#comment-1506 God bless the interwebs. You just can't make this stuff up :-) Personally, I'd be surprised if NZFACT chose deepest, darkest Hamiltron to launch such a campaign (my money is on an over-zealous employee showing some poorly thought out 'initiative'). Given all of the coverage this legislation has garnered, along with some of the stranger angles (such as this one), I can see "S92a The Musical" coming to a stage near you RSN. God bless the interwebs. You just can’t make this stuff up :-)

Personally, I’d be surprised if NZFACT chose deepest, darkest Hamiltron to launch such a campaign (my money is on an over-zealous employee showing some poorly thought out ‘initiative’).

Given all of the coverage this legislation has garnered, along with some of the stranger angles (such as this one), I can see “S92a The Musical” coming to a stage near you RSN.

]]> By: Bill Bennett http://it.gen.nz/2009/03/18/anatomy-of-a-smear/comment-page-1/#comment-1505 Bill Bennett Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:54:07 +0000 http://it.gen.nz/?p=559#comment-1505 ”the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.” And yet today DVDs account for what? The largest slice of the entire film industry's income. See: Studios Rush To Cash In On DVD Boom; Swelling Demand for Disks Alters Hollywood's Arithmetic http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B06E1D7113BF933A15757C0A9629C8B63 ”the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.”

And yet today DVDs account for what? The largest slice of the entire film industry’s income.

See: Studios Rush To Cash In On DVD Boom; Swelling Demand for Disks Alters Hollywood’s Arithmetic

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B06E1D7113BF933A15757C0A9629C8B63

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