Via BoingBoing; Well, this is it, New Zealand – the country that legalized home distillation of alcohol, brought us tiki-gods, the most extreme “Extreme Sports”, Peter Jackson, Weta, was the home of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and much, much more – has now 0wnzrd democracy. They beat every other free nation in the world about the head and shoulders WITH freedom. What am I on about?

The New Zealand government has put the review process of it’s Police Act, which is coming up for review, onto the web in wiki-format! They’ve invited not only the New Zealand public to edit and make comments, but to also upload their own versions if they’d like.

This is one of the things that is so great about the internet! The freedom that it creates and the openness it promotes are paramount and need to be protected!

I just hope that all the people of New Zealand have at least access to the internet.

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That’s right, Amazon is giving away television episodes for free with the purchase of a DVD (as long as you redeem this within the first 24 hours of your purchase). If you’ve been checked out my last couple of posts, then you’ve seen that you can buy some DVDs on Amazon.com for 1¢. Under the “Format” type you’ll see:

“Download Bonus! Get a FREE TV show download when you buy any DVD. Must redeem within 24 hours of DVD purchase. See details. “

Following the link to Amazon Unbox you get the details:

“This month, if you purchase any DVD on Amazon.com you will receive a $1.99 instant rebate on a purchase or rental through Amazon Unbox, our video download store. You need to redeem this rebate within 24 hours of purchasing your DVD. Because most of our TV downloads are available for purchase for just $1.99, you’ll be able to purchase a TV show FREE. If you prefer, purchase or rent a higher priced video download and receive a $1.99 discount. Just purchase any video download and we will automatically deduct $1.99 from the price. For more details on how to take advantage of this offer, see below. To begin shopping for your TV show, go to the Amazon Unbox video download store. “

There you have it. Amazon has 1¢ TV show downloads!

As long as you live in the US.

And, you only get one per purchase.

And, there’s a limit of one per customer.

Oh, and Amazon can cancel this at any time.

UPDATE!! 070219
Well, that didn’t take long. I checked back on this offer this morning and it seems like the promotion information line is still present for some DVDs, but not for others. When you find a “Download Bonus” promotion link, it no longer displays any information on the promotion. Guess they exercised their right to end the promotion after they figured out they’re literally giving away (without gaining any revenue from DVD sales) videos!