“I’ll be back.”
I have just watched Green MP Gareth Hughes question the Commerce Minister Simon Power on what steps the Government had taken to prepare the public for the legislation. One question in particular was of interest, and that was around what had been done to advise schools on the new ‘Skynet’ law. Mr Power appeared confident that schools had been advised, I guess we must have missed that memo.
At present this is not a big deal for our school (try downloading a movie at the gargantuan speed of 256K). However with fiber being installed at our school this year (and other schools throughout NZ) this will be an issue. Sure we have encrypted passwords, and security, but so does the FBI and people can still get into their systems and have a good old poke around.
My point is with ultrafast broadband and a virtual ocean of torrents out there and kids being kids, the temptation (and challenge) is there to download the latest movie using the schools internet access. If this happens (and it probably will to at least one school) what happens? Does a school loose it’s internet access due to one student, or one member of the public with a lot of time on their hands?
What is clear here (and Mr Power’s non-answer to the Netflix question clearly supports this statement) is that a law that has good intentions has been rushed through with little thought and very little understanding. Here is hoping the T800 doesn’t come knocking on our door anytime soon.
Clustrmaps
