New Zealand Gov't Refuses To Remove 'Guilt Upon Accusation' Clause In Copyright Act
from the bad-law dept
Recently, New Zealand passed a copyright law similar to ones being pushed elsewhere by the entertainment industry, that would require accused file sharers to be cut off from their internet connection, based on the accusation alone. This seems to go against any concept of due process, and even musicians (who this law was supposed to help) came out against it loudly. Unfortunately, the politicians who put the law in place clearly had their minds already made up, and are refusing to change the law, which will go into effect in just a few weeks. Apparently, they want to see how it works in action, before making a decision on whether to change it -- which I'm sure will be quite comforting to those who lose their internet access without any proof or conviction of unauthorized file sharing.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Actually, it's worse
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+2, insightful
UNCLE JACK!!! JESUS FUCKING CHRIST I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A MAJOR 20-MAN DUNGEON RAID FOR MAJOR LEWTZ!!!! WHAT THE FUCK????
Said politician can either reconsider the wisdom of this guilty-on-accusation crap or call the ISP with a hearty "Do you know who I AM?"
Ah, shit.
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HAHA
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Why just their friends and family
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Why stop at politicians?
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Re: Why stop at politicians?
Why stop at dobbing in politicians, what about judges, police, schools, IRD, CYPs, train controllers, airport security, the list is endless - I'm sure that would bring the whole country to a grinding halt.
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While some of you may want to ignore this as 'little old NZ', we are a testing ground for half of this stuff. Rest assured if it works at all in our country it will be coming to yours as the poster child as to how it 'can' work.
Personally I simply could not think of anything more satisfying than having some of the aforementioned *ohh shit** scenarios play out with so many connected to the internet suddenly left high and dry.
AC in post #8 that idea is pure evil genius.
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looking for job
and iam 36 years old
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They've Changed Their Mind!
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