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New Zealand's Recording Industry CEO Tries to Defend New Draconian Law

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the embrace-your-customers-instead dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Campbell Smith, CEO of the RIAA equivalent in New Zealand, has written an opinion piece for one of New Zealand's largest daily papers, in which he tries to justify the new 'presumed guilty' copyright law. This law allows recording industry members to watch file-sharing activity and notify ISPs of users who are downloading material. The copyright holder can then demand that an ISP disconnect that user — without the user ever having a chance to demonstrate their evidence."

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  1. Re:Why not lower prices? by oodaloop · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mod parent up. I had an economist friend years ago who calculated what songs would cost on the radio per airing, and it came out to $.05USD. At that price, I would buy large quantities of music. As it is now, CDs are too expensive and so are mp3s on iTunes. Not that I would ever pirate music. On a completely separate subject, I like limes.

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  2. Re:What a coincidence by Gible · · Score: 5, Informative

    Worse, at the prompting of the US entertainment industry in order to obtain a dubiously valued free trade agreement.

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