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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."
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ahh NZ, i'm going to burn some karma here and state the truth - NZ is Australia if Australia was run by women. just hear me out, all their top bureaucrats are women, business is owned by women hell this crazy plan is brought to you by a female minister.
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Once upon a time, we had this thing called live music. Except we just called it music, because we didn't have anything else. The idea that recorded music is an essential part of a musician's income is tendentious at best.
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Absolutely the only "fair" copyright is one that gives me the right to copy any damn thing I please and do whatever I want with it. Including sharing it with the rest of the planet.
Of course, the side effect to this is Sony and WalMart will be the only entites that make any money from recorded music. All off the wages of people without high-speed Internet access or those too ignorant or guilt-ridden to download their music for free.
Why will those companies specifically get money while nobody else does? Simple. Without copyright they can publish collections and albums from the past without paying anyone for that privilege. Plenty of people (see above) will pay for CDs with such material on them, at least for a while.
Yes, this revenue source has to dry up - when the last person on Earth gets broadband or the last guilt-ridden over-30 person finally dies then there will be no more revenue from old recorded music.