New Zealand Rushes Through Anti-Piracy Law: Ban From Internet Up to 6 Months If Caught

So they’ll suspend internet access for 6 months after they are caught 4 times (3 strikes + last offense to get banned) and after already being fined. So what? What’s a better punitive measure? I feel no sympathy for anyone dense enough to get caught again after all that.

And what’s the purpose of a Twitter protest? They don’t actually think changing their avatars and posting a blurb makes a difference… right?

Shut the fuck up..

I must agree, maybe something more contreversial, like a DDos attack.

Im a little skeptical of the whole thing, first off the copyright holder has to identify the ip address of the person downloading the illegal content. There is something called private trackers which usually encrypt all traffic so there is no real solid way of proving someone downloaded a particular file. That is assuming people people download using p2p torrent. And anyway people serious about downloading “illegal” files usually belong to closed networks and private servers, which the government has no way in hell of discovering whats stored on them. Lets face it the only people who are going to be affected by this bill are the slightly not so tech savvy baby boomers and their grandma’s.

Well said. The use of proxy servers is another way around the problem, or even a network of them (such as TOR) and an online base P2P client. I dont see how its going to stamp out the problem. I mean terrabyte hard drives are almost common place. sO whats stopping me from going to my friend’s place, copying my entire terrabyte hard drive full of music and videos to another computer? Sure, its less convenient, but it soooo wont stop the problem. If movie (and audio) production houses werent so bloody greedy, didnt pay the exhorbetent sums of money to actors and artists, this problem were be faaarrrrrr less of an issue than it is now.

With the very fast advent of mobile wireless broadband, what’s stopping my friend (for example) signing up for a second internet connection and giving me the wireless broadband USB reciever, username and password? What about buying a pre-paid sim card (They are available for $2 from any grocery store here in Oz) that enables the user to have internet access, and connecting the phone to their computer? Nothing!

Finally, at the base level of a computer, a movie, song, program or file is simply a VERY long number. International copyright law prohibits copyright of numbers. So, in essence, those very long numbers (and therefore anything that exists in digital format) is not subject to copyright. The interpretation and/or intention (depending where you live) must be proven first.

The government are DREAMING if they think this legislation will curb copyright infringement. They are also DREAMING if they think it can be monitored and enforced at a practical level. I feel sorry for the kiwis who paid taxes that paid for these politicians to come up with such a pathetic idea.

1 – people who pirate media also buy the most
2 – if you stop people from pirating media this way – they will buy pirated movies and i can’t see why people would then go on to buy the legit version
3 – this wont even work so 1 and 2 are irreverent.

True…. I wont bother to buy the real stuff even if i can’t download it, unless i really like it. I would go and buy it.

I probably change to the lower plan since there is no point of having high bandwidth limit package if there is nothing to download.

 LETS PROTEST, LETS MAKE IT BIG!!

Whats the point of fast internet if you don’t have anything to download? It’s obvious that people with 80GB of broadband pirate and download stuff, and so what’s the point of having that much internet? Phone Companies will run out of business.

internet a human right?
http://www.3news.co.nz/Internet-access-a-human-right—UN-report/tabid/412/articleID/214021/Default.aspx

Can anyone comment on the use of ‘Annoymouse’?  I know that this is a group against these restrictive regimes and the protection of privacy, but (and excuse me, I’m not so technosavvy-unfortunately wrong generation) what stops everyday people using the website to get around being identified?  Just curious!

so basically what is the point and who is likely to be affected by this law?

is it okay  to download torrents from isohunt, pirate bay and using utorrent to download?
i wouldnt think so since p2p is private files sharing, even if it may be that the movies, music and software are illegally obtained. how are they going to find out what file it is?
i’m not sure how this whole scheme works?

I am going to migrate to australia if they pass this crap law wtf is this

Citizen you clearly don’t have a clue what your talking about.
Go be a fucking dumb ass elsewhere.

John Key has clearly sold out New Zealander’s access to information for the sake of appeasing the large corporations. Personally I will never support any of the companies who pushed for this bill.

So does this mean direct downloads from mediafire and stuff are ok? You won’t be warned?

Sorry if this is bleeding obvious to you guys, I’m not the most tech-savvy guy.

From my understanding of the bill that has been passed its ANY copyright material.
Technically you could upload your own copyright material to the internet, lay a complaint against yourself and be kicked off the internet for doing so.
What happens when a government employee violates the copyright laws, do they shut down the internet?

This should be interesting to watch if you consider that internet companies in NZ make much of their profits from selling larger data caps. If downloading copyright material consists of much of that cap then those companies will have reduced profits. If a company has reduced profits they often lay off staff.

I can go for a drive and find numerous wireless networks on my laptop.. how can they prove the down-loaded data even was used from the home owner? they cant. usage can only be tracked to the router not the individual pc 
so if you get busted just say someone jacked ur network and your off scott free..

lol

This is such bad timing…due to the fact that I am 15 , I am not rolled in cash… and im the DJ of my school dance… so therefore….I don’t care if i get $15000 bill.. My excuse is i’m a child, The disco runs for aprox:   5 hours (300 minutes) each song being roughly 3 minutes… You think ima pull $100 out of my arse? I think not.

your a dumb ass kid to start off with….you think your so smart they will charge your family and the guardian who is responsible for you..your dad will have to pull it out of his arse. I am in the music industry and its a shame you say such a thing especially when you are heading into that industry yourself.

You’re a dumb ass for saying your.

This whole thing sucks. Being in NZ, paying ridiculous amounts in taxes and not having the access to file sharing like the rest of the world is a shame. Wonder if they this law applies to uploading copyright images of yourself on facebook :)

haha  that is fkin funny!

Just avoid PirateBay if you can, use private network file sharing like … well, maybe they are watching *shhhh*… im sure you can find sites yourself!.. I bet the dorks will watch PirateBay though just because its been getting some much international heat..

Fags like you make the world gay

Why do something a hard way when theres an easyway? 

i totaly agree wit you guys as far as im concerned but what other ways to get around it

are we also not allowed to download songs from youtube?