Daft Kiwi copyright law could be adopted

...the people against this crazy law actually accusing members of the New Zeland MAFIIA to be downloading and sharing copyrighted files and having their connections terminated?

Rob

Accuse the MPs and their offices.

I'm sure the MPs will do something damned quick if they lose internet to their homes and offices ...

Cheers,
Wol

That's funny actually. The next thing we witness are P2P viruses that bring loads of unsuspecting surfers into that amendment's scope, getting disconnected and striking deals with neighbors to share their wireless connection. Further along the way, before those greedy legislators, that pushed forth the act realize that programming is actually a language though in school (at increasingly earlier grades), they find out that P2P now consists of a wide spectrum of home-made sharing applications operating on wide private networks. That's two layers of encryption if you account for the hardware one plus the personal software touch.

What the RIANZ fails to realize is that business on the long therm can only exist through a relation of trust and will rather than force. Otherwise its the 'The more you peek, the more it blurs' Amendment Act that gets followed by the masses.

Why do the Anglo Countries have such difficulty in standing up to their governments and isn't there some type of judicial review of new laws in N.Z.?

This can't be legal as described in the article.

In don't see any problems or foreseeable problems at all with this. Things like zombied PC or backdoor rootkits don't happen anymore with Vista's super duper security so we have nothing to worry about at all. Yay ;)

Thanks for helping spread the word Egan.

The adoption of this law will do nothing to restrict the sharing of data between p2p users, it is a shame that our government "the public servants we elected" would think this is in the interests of the populace and not that of the record companies.
This is just another law which will be used to restrict the rights of free people, before anyone realizes this will be a police state

Well does this work for the corporations as well as the individual? If so I think independent artists should start targeting corporations and government officials. If a large corporation has their internet cut off then it effectively would stop the economy who will then blast the government.

The trains will suck in all the cows in the neighborhood. So Kiwi needs a man with a red flag to walk in front of the train.

"..the people against this crazy law actually accusing members of the New Zeland MAFIIA to be downloading and sharing copyrighted files and having their connections terminated? "

Follow the links. In the first place, you have to be an aggrieved copyright holder to make the accusation. Secondly, the law is phrased so vaguely that an ISP can bend over backwards to accomodate different rules for different people.

In the case of "rats & mice" end users, the ISP won't bother investigating or giving warnings, it'll just cut them off.

"In the first place, you have to be an aggrieved copyright holder to make the accusation."

Yes, but you don't have to prove that.

the trick is to accuse all members of parliament that voted in favour of this idiocy of that they have illegally downloaded stuff on their PC..
See how quickly the law is being revoked if they feel the hurt of McCarthy style persecution...

I would have thought that constitutional lawyers will have a field-day with this one, if NZ ever introduces it and it’s acted upon. Looks like an expensive damages settlement brewing somewhere down the track when somebody is cut off as a result of accusations (RIANZ seems to believe that evidence, let alone due-process, is too impractical a requirement for their needs) and their business is impacted.

Let's get on to all the rip and burned stuff we've been copying for 10 years and all the copied tapes, and videos off the TV...
what the heck is all this about?
Let all the "artistes" thank God that people like their music enough to want to share it and stop being so flipping selfish.
Its only rock n roll but we like it.

Unfortunatelty NZ does not have a constitution and therefore no such thing as a constitutional lawyer.
It is very hard to see how this won't just pass into law.
Alos it really will only affect causal downloaders, the majority will just switch to using Tor which works just fine for trackers in this situation.
matt.

Pathetic Law, I'm in NZ, I'll continue to purchase my content from iTunes or Boomkat and if what I want isn't available when I want it then I'll discover it from demonoid or another great torrent community.

My advice to all internet free users in the world is to blacklist NZ, thinking of a holiday downunder, go to Australia, NZ is expensive, agressive and we (myself excluded) speak a retarded farmer form of pigeon english, also three quarters of the population are wasted on "P" what's P ? well P is the NZ name for a harmful drug "crystal meth" but because we dumb fux coined it "P" which sounds very unharmful 12 year olds are doing it, kiwis still think George Bush was right to invade Iraqi, get me the fck out of here.

The way around this draconian law is a WiFi version of Radio Caroline.

The ISP would be at sea outside NZ's jurisdiction just as Radio Caroline was in the UK in the 70s.

The model is already there, it's just the modus operandi is a little different--this time it's wireless in both directions--both in and out of the country.

If the Govt. responds by banning transmissions out say without a licence--in other words, you'd need a licence for Wireless broadband--then it wouldn't be in government very long.

We really do need to stop special interest groups underhandedly usurping government and our laws. This type of lobbying must stop. It makes mockery of the law and the citizenry disrespectful of both government and democracy.