Comments on: New Zealand First to Adopt 3-Strikes Law for Pirates

By: trinsic

trinsic — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:56:17 +0000

IF I were them right now, I would be up in arms about this. No organzation like the RIAA or the austurailian equvilant of that has the right to use any leagal system or an internet provider to jusify their own existance.

Im Sorry aussies are so lax with lett laws pass like this..

By: Bugger

Bugger — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:00:27 +0000

I live in NZ and have already been suspended, even beofre the law came in! ISP is xnet 2 strikes and your out, so it would apear that I can't torrent any more.

Sucks…..

By: skyturnred

skyturnred — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:41:52 +0000

hahaha holy crap that is a good idea

LONG LIVE THE BAY

By: skyturnred

skyturnred — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:39:57 +0000

not to mention if they executed all of the pirates that would be over 50% of the population

By: skyturnred

skyturnred — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:36:58 +0000

evil has won all over the world. i thought that 2009 will be a great year. but this new law is proving to be a real downer, to everyone. this same law is being passed in Sweden, which is where the hugely popular torrent downloading site thepiratebay is hosted. this means that as of april 09 (that's when the law comes into affect in sweden), there will be over 5 million criminals in sweden, because of this new law. thats more than 50% of their population. it is a dark day indeed.

By: faceleg

faceleg — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:59:04 +0000

I live in New Zealand.

If it wasn't for this site I wouldn't have known about this new law.

I'd rather live in China.

By: Blogue Techno : La Nouvelle-Zelande entame le pas dans le “3 strikes you’re out”

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:37:33 +0000

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By: nic

nic — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:58:26 +0000

soooo… if you have an old fashion VCR and you record 3 tv shows… they take away your tv?

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witty title pending : Three strikes and you're out — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:49:06 +0000

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By: Mister President

Mister President — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:16:41 +0000

I have recently returned to NZ after 20 years overseas and I am sorry to say that what I find is a cuntry run by control freaks and busybodies. They talk about de-regulation but that is only for businesses. The people are monitored with Orwellian efficiency. It’s no surprise the multinations felt NZ would be the easiest touch when it came to persuading the government to further monitor its people.

By: La Nouvelle-Zelande entame le pas dans le “3 strikes you’re out” « Blogue Techno

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:45:35 +0000

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By: Aziz

Aziz — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:57:03 +0000

I live in New Zealand and I can’t beleive this is happening.

This is a useless law which will just put ISP’s into bankruptcy.

This is all because of a boring NZ made film called “Sione’s Wedding” which was such a boring and crappy movie.

Just because it got DVDRip’d and posted on torrent sites they got less revenue.

Welcome to the real world NZ Government, how do America handle Piracy.

New Zealand should just stop making boring NZ films and let the US make them.

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I sitll can’t believe this. I hope ISP’s fight to reject this law.

This is also disgusting as it interfere’s with the Human Right’s.
Sneaking up on customers history and looking at what they look at. That is so uncomfortable just like China’s Internet but instead with Tibet stuff.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:44:27 +0000

http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=29834002818
facebook group against it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:44:21 +0000

Feel for you, NZ’ers, but it’s gonna be a whole lot worse here in Aus. BTW: these laws are not inspired by the communist left, but by the neo-fascist far right. M’kay?

By: bdsmith

bdsmith — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:36:03 +0000

Stop supporting them by calling it “3 strikes and you’re out” – its really “3 accusations and you’re out”. Remember the new thinking – guilty until proven innocent.

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Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:59:58 +0000

[...] Segundo a Billboard, grande parte do Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act de 2008 deverá entrar já em vigor a 31 de Outubro. No entanto, devido à pressão dos operadores de telecomunicações que se manifestaram contra a resposta gradual, o governo decidiu atrasar a entrada em vigor das medidas previstas pela secção em questão para o final de Fevereiro. Mas os ISPs neo-zelandeses esperam chegar a acordo com os representantes da indústria de entretenimento de modo a conseguir um código de conduta, de acordo com a edição neo-zelandesa da Stuff (via Torrent Freak). [...]

By: Alfonso

Alfonso — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:39:44 +0000

Soon on these screens… the Sarkozy doctrine in Italy, too….

http://kingofgng.com/eng/2008/10/19/the-minister-downloader-repudiates-the-anti-piracy-committee/

By: COCKS

COCKS — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:21:02 +0000

In new zealand we have something called parliamentary supremacy which means that means an act of parliament can’t be taken to court and must be carried out no matter what it says.

By: Det

Det — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:03:03 +0000

Our politicians live in the world of fuckwits. Oddly enough, it’s where THEY come from.

By: Mak

Mak — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:45:02 +0000

@79, that’s spot on. I myself find Rapidshare far more productive than torrents. Slingshot (a NZ ISP) has been throttling torrents for some time anyway.

By: Joeblog

Joeblog — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:49:55 +0000

I seriously hope this doesn’t happen in Australia…

Anyways guys move away from torrents. They are crap. Move onto webhosting sites i.e. rapidshare etc…they pwn torrents.

Use Rapget you can use other file hosting sites too..

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By: OmegaWolf747

OmegaWolf747 — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:08:07 +0000

That figures. New Zealand is one of the worst “nanny state” type countries out there. They even make the US seem libertarian.

By: ju

ju — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:06:27 +0000

fail

By: Johnny Be Cool

Johnny Be Cool — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:05:37 +0000

What a bummer. Must suck to live there.

Jiff
http://www.online-privacy.se.tc

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:56:41 +0000

jeez and i always thought canada was the holy land of filesharing ( beside sweden ) in the world … Well finally beginning to appreciate my own country again :) real competition on the internet market seems to be worth something after all.

By: Canuck

Canuck — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:35:45 +0000

Poor NZers! I can sympathize.

Here in Canada Bittorrent is limited (for high bandwidth users) between the hours of 4pm and 2am every day. I get limited to 30 Kbps due to DPI for those hours. Bell isn’t my ISP but all(?) ISPs here use Bell’s telephone lines across the country. Bell Canada has a nice monopoly going for themselves. Our government is doing nothing about it.

So NZers it could be worse, you could live in Canada – where you get the full internet experience for only 14 hours per day.

By: bob

bob — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:34:07 +0000

all i can say is shit, time to move to Australia

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:16:17 +0000

Court? Judge? Innocent until proven otherwise? Didnt you hear how ridiculous that sounds? Theres surely no place for such medieval practices in our modern world!

By: h33t

h33t — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:00:51 +0000

if i received a single accussation from my ISP that i had infringed copyright i would sue their fickin ass off

make them prove it in court

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:28:45 +0000

“You can’t stop the signal.”

– Mr. Universe, from the film “Serenity”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:20:20 +0000

REBEL, DOWNLOAD NOW

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:57:10 +0000

“god. this world is so PC.”

nice pun, very nice

By: Leonet.co.nz

Leonet.co.nz — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:52:29 +0000

WTF!
Bloody Sir Helen Clark!
You Lady man lady.
god. this world is so PC.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:40:00 +0000

fricken bastards, the whole point of piracy is illegitimacy, illegality, the pirates who prevail will be the ones to find their way around this. Impossible as it may seem. Perhaps connect yourself to the internet and cut out the middle man, ISPs? LOL Sucks to live here. Now it just got even worse.

By: Kyro

Kyro — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:39:05 +0000

Sadly ISP’s in New Zealand have been conforming to the DRAFT (it wasn’t even law) of this bill as far back as 2005.
The ISP’s that were following the draft of this bill back in 2005 were:
WorldxChange, Orcon, SlingShot and TelstraClear.
Xtra started following it back in 2007.

Oh and I remember mentioning this in a previous comment on TorrentFreak.

By: Jubbs

Jubbs — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:25:59 +0000

I plan to accuse Tizard of download copyrighted porn the day the law comes into effect. pwn.

Dont judge NZ on this silly cow.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:07:39 +0000

The NZ Government is run by a bunch of ministers most of whom couldn’t find their bum with both hands on a sunny day. Some Government departments here are corrupt, run by liars and lean towards secrecy and favoritism.

New Zealand is steeped in political correctness. Is the 3-strikes BS any surprise to those who live in NZ?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:01:09 +0000

Agreed Mak. Awesome-O’s probably from America. They even think that we’re a state of Australia =P

By: anon

anon — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:54:55 +0000

There’s an easy way to counter this. Simply make three accusations against anyone who was involved in passing this law.

By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:53:28 +0000

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By: Shaun

Shaun — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:44:57 +0000

New Zealand doesn’t have a communist government.

Yeah right.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:41:25 +0000

I live in New Zealand, and honestly I doubt everyone is going to follow this bullshit rule.

By: Hoog

Hoog — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:27:35 +0000

All this anti-New Zealand rhetoric probably by people who have never come here. This is one law that is coming to effect here and not a good one. As a Kiwi I am going to do as much as I can to change this law by voting Green at the coming election. Just shouting abuses at the politicans won’t do anything, you actually need to talk to them. If you want to see what the other parties think about the policy for the upcoming election go to TVNZondemand.co.nz and go to elections. There is a debate that was on TVNZ 7 and webcast with the IT spokespeople of Labour, National, Green and ACT. Oh and I would more worried with the filtering that is happening in Australia that is even scarier.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:07:25 +0000

maybe anonymous should contact those idiots David Cunliffe and Judith Tizard and let them know what they think.

Or perhaps we could accuse them of piracy first.

If I was an ISP I would first start monitoring all ministers home accounts, and all media celebrities home accounts and take them down as soon as their kids used limewire, or downlaoded copyright porn. then we will see how long it lasts. Most accounts are shared between 5 or so people. This is a ridiculous law.

By: Wildclaw

Wildclaw — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:04:55 +0000

Trying to legislate copyright 3-strike laws is pure evidence of goverment people who have sold out to business interests. There simply is no other explanation of how so similar suggestions of 3-strike laws are popping up everywhere around this planet.

Plain disgusting. Voting yes to such obviously bought laws should be treated as treason and be punishble by public beheading. OK, maybe exaggerating a little, but not very much. Goverment people really need to get back some fear for the people.

Also, using the word pirating for private copyright infringement is incorrect. Pirating is basically selling goods that you don’t have the right to sell. If you aren’t selling anything, you can’t be pirating.

By: KiwiNZ

KiwiNZ — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:01:35 +0000

“Gov’t of NZ, bought and paid for just like all the rest. Does that country even have a constitution and/or civil rights?”

Actually, no. No we don’t. No constitution per se, and our bill of rights is not entrenched, so it could be voted down by a simple 50%+1 majority…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:23:03 +0000

We already have the highest rate ever of people moving overseas, looking like they’re trying to empty the country or something. Stupid piece of shit government