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New Zealand Reintroduces 3 Strikes Law
An anonymous reader writes "The New Zealand government has reintroduced a newly rewritten addition to the Copyright Act which will allow rights' holders to send copyright notices to ISPs, and force them to pass them on to account holders. Section 92A of the Copyright Act will allow rights holders to take people who have been identified as infringers more than three times in front of a Copyright Tribunal. This law will allow the Copyright Tribunal to hand down either a $15,000 fine or six months internet disconnection. The law specifies that the account holder himself is responsible for what is downloaded via the account, and doesn't make allowances for identifying the actual copyright infringer if there are multiple computers tied to an account."
I'm damn sure that if I found some ripping off my work(*), that I wouldn't want to be reduced to sending them three "Pretty please stop" letters before finally being given the chance to inconvenience them temporarily.
Clearly the NZ government is heavily biased in favour of the leechers and pirates, and hates rights owners with a passion.
(*) Work is something that you produce in return for renumeration, once you move out of your parents' basement.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
I hate football (soccer) with an utterly indescribable fervor, you insensitive clod!
And please, do not try to find other sports related types of exclusion.
How hard can it be to stop doing it after you've been hauled before two tribunals?
You *are* breaking the law....
No sig today...