VIDEO: Lee explains 'this peer filesharing thing'

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Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:01p.m.

Melissa Lee explains how the 'filesharing thing' works

Melissa Lee explains how the 'filesharing thing' works

The night before attempting to explain in Parliament why she supported the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill, National MP Melissa Lee tweeted she was going to have a shower and go to bed, listening to a "compilation a friend did for me of K Pop".

She didn't say if it was on CD, mp3 or was an old-school mixtape, and it might be at the lower end of the gaffe-prone MP's faux pas, but it was ammunition for online opposition to the bill.

But Ms Lee didn't do herself any favours in Parliament either.

"Even though I worked in television, even though I actually worked in the film industry, I had no idea how this 'peer', filesharing thing actually worked," she told other MPs.

"I had to actually learn what this is about. And it is incredible how they do it! They download this software and they put it out. There's internet chat about it."

Watch the full speech.

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18 Apr 2011 07:24p.m.

Kelly wrote:

Go girl

18 Apr 2011 11:32a.m.

The_Watcher wrote:

This woman is a complete moron. Its disturbing we have so many technologically challenged idiots in power arguing over things they know nothing about.

16 Apr 2011 09:09a.m.

Bruce wrote:

Well here you go Melissa, I accuse of copyright infringement and according to your incoming law you will have to submit evidence of why you are not, or you could do the decent thing as David Hughes did after being found guilty by media and resign. You lack of intelligence and integrity is an insult to New Zealand, its Asian community and political system.

15 Apr 2011 11:25a.m.

AC wrote:

Nicely said CK.. it is this sort of ignorance that hinders the growth of our nation.

15 Apr 2011 12:41a.m.

CK wrote:

@Johnmillan First of all Melissa Lee is not Chinese, and certainly not a man, she is of Korean descent. Secondly, do you not know that there are people of Asian descent in NZ who's been here for generations? Just because she looks different from the "mainstream" Kiwi face does not make her any less of a Kiwi. Your assumption of "white is right" is a reflection of certain segments of the NZ society, bet you wouldn't tell her to go back to wherever she's from had she been of European descent. Yes I agree that she is incompetent, but even if she was brilliant you would nullify all her quality simply on the ground that she was a "Chinaman", and it is people like you that stop NZ from getting all the talents that it desperately needs to plug the brain drain.

14 Apr 2011 10:34p.m.

johnmillan wrote:

These Chinaman come to New Zealand just to tell us how we should operate in our own country,perhaps we should be able to tell them to piss off back to their own country and lay down the laws there.These are the ones that KEY likes,these up startling chinese who can tell us what we should and not do as he has no balls to be able to steer the ship him self.

14 Apr 2011 09:06p.m.

Peerblock wrote:

New Zealand as it is now is years behind the rest of the world in internet speeds. and now passing this bill will further increase this gap. We need more people to be on the net to use the net, so our infrastructure is expanded. This bill will not stop Peer-shearing people will find other ways to spreed movies/music/ect. Internet companies want people to download as much as possible so they get the money im sure they are against this bill as well. And i dont know who they asked to to the surveys im sure anyone i know would of been against it, I bet they just asked people from the entrainment industry.

14 Apr 2011 07:43p.m.

baboosh wrote:

Never liked this incompetent woman, fits well where she belongs though! between a bunch of money grabbing hypocrites, with no proper vision for NZ future! only here to fill up the bank accounts.

14 Apr 2011 07:19p.m.

hellonearthis wrote:

Quote from Melissa Lee: Ok. Shower... Reading ... And then bed! listening to a compilation a friend did for me of K Pop. Fab. Thanks Jay. 12 Apr via http://twitter.com/#!/melissaleemp/status/57764856488669184 So it's ok for her to use illegal copies of music.

14 Apr 2011 03:23p.m.

anon wrote:

Who the. . what the. . i don't even. .