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NZ File-Sharers, Remixers Guilty Upon Accusation
An anonymous reader writes "Next month, New Zealand is scheduled to implement Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act. The controversial act provides 'Guilt Upon Accusation,' which means that if a file-sharer is simply accused of copyright infringement he/she will be punished with summary Internet disconnection. Unlike most laws, this one has no appeal process and no punishment for false accusation, because they were removed after public consultation. The ISPs are up in arms and now artists are taking a stand for fair copyright."
1. Start a business claiming to be an ISP in New Zealand.
2. Don't bother with renting an office, acquiring network infrastructure, etc. (All you need is a P.O. box and a bank account.)
3. Accuse each customer of copyright infringement and issue disconnect notice as soon as he/she pays the signup fee.
4. (No "??????" required.)
5. Profit!
It was New Zealand on the Internet with the Candlestick!
Because all the other Anglo-Saxon countries still have the visage of a hereditary monarch on their coins. ;-)
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
No, those are just stealing physical property. Pirating media is far worse because it deprives hardworking musicians and other artists of their well-deserved profits, which is far worse, really, than most felonies -- hardly a civil matter.
Clearly we need to realign enforcement priorities to take into account the seriousness of the crime.
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Pirating media is far worse because it deprives hardworking musicians and other artists of their well-deserved profits, which is far worse, really, than most felonies -- hardly a civil matter.
Hmm, do I have to point out the obvious mistake you made here? It's clearly not the musicians and other artists who deserve the profit, it's the record companies for their hard, hard work of making those little plastic discs and promoting hopeless no-sell artists like Rihanna, Take That and Britney Spears. Surely you don't want them to do that for free, like, well, make one of those newfangled websites everybody seems to think are so hip these days.
Interweb, bah!
but how are you going to sign it...
if you have no internet?
mr anderson?
I see something else far more likely to occur. Most the accused will also happen to be same exact assholes that were guilty of spawn camping the accusers party the night before.
Too bad the shitface of a politician who added this clauses is out of office since the government change. Judith Tizard if anyones interested,
:)
In which case her Internet connection is no longer likely to have any special protection applied to it
I'm sure the record industry is losing sleep over the pretentious audiophile demographic ...