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New Zealand Three-Strikes Law To Be Tested

Posted by timothy on from the hanged-by-the-neck-until-cranky dept.

Dangerous_Minds writes "Next month, tribunals will begin for the first people receiving their third strikes in the New Zealand 'Three Strikes Law.' In all, 11 people will have their cases heard, including one who said that her connection was used without her knowledge. Freezenet notes that there has been a long history of controversy for the law from the Internet blackout protests of 2008 to the cablegate leak which revealed that the law was financed and pushed by the United States."

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  1. That's about the size of it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "the law was financed and pushed by the United States"
    New Zealand, control those music listeners, or we send in the marines.

    1. Re:That's about the size of it by 88Seconds · · Score: 5, Interesting

      "the law was financed and pushed by the United States"

      and pushed through on the back of legislation for assisting those affected by the Christchurch earthquake. So anyone opposing this bit of the bill would also be denying help to those who really needed it.

  2. Re:The obvious question here.... by Calydor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    By being sued for illegal downloads she knows she did not do herself?

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  3. Re:The obvious question here.... by Mistakill · · Score: 5, Informative

    NZ law specifically written with sponsorship from the MPAA/RIAA (about $1m NZD) and is written so that the account holder is fully the responsible party, even at say a school, library, starbucks, etc

  4. So everybody has to do what X Corp. requires, yes? by silviuc · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is appalling how corporations, mostly US based, have managed to get everybody working to protect their interests. Ofc, they could not have done that alone, they have the US Gov that throws its weight around if need arises. They basically have every police dept. working to enforce copyright/DMCA and whatever else they cook up. This might be all fine and dandy if those corporations would bother to pay taxes in the countries they do business in. As it turns out, most of the time, they manage to skip paying them. So we, the citizens, pay taxes to keep police depts that enforce laws for entities that pay nothing in return. Meanwhile, serious crimes do not get solved because there is "personnel shortage". I would love to see how much countries spend per month or year on "defending" copyright and how much they copyright holders paid in taxes for the service.

    While I do not approve piracy, I certainly enjoy reading how another attempt to down the piratebay has failed.