Comments on: Kiwi 3 Strikes Anti-Piracy Bill Receives Unanimous Support

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 02 May 2010 03:31:03 +0000

Nobody here seems to understand the processes of the NZ Parliament. After the ‘first reading’ the bill is sent to a select committee for detailed scrutiny and amendment as necessary. It returns to the house for a second and third reading before becoming law.
Time to prepare short, well-reasoned, un-emotive, to the point arguments to submit to the select committee.
After the debacle over the previous bill parliamentarians should be listening carefully!

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 01 May 2010 11:00:26 +0000

Why do i need a law like this in New Zealand we only have about 4.3 million people. I hope none of you are from China cause look 78% of wongs have downloaded ilegal stuff they are the ones for a law change not New Zealand or any other country under 20 million and soon Aussie will be taking the extact law in there country.

PS: the world is getting locked up

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:11:17 +0000

Just to get New Zealand in perspective:

Total population in 2006: 4 million.

That’s about the same as Kentucky, or about half the population of London, England in 2007.

Ergo, who cares about them when it comes to crazy IP legislation?

By: Bruce an Ex Kiwi

Bruce an Ex Kiwi — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:44:17 +0000

Who are you kiwis kidding. Once your emissions trading scheme cranks up to help offset your massive contribution to global non-warming none of you will be able to afford electricity. File sharing problem solved.

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By: Durp

Durp — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:19:54 +0000

They hunt customers who download illegal stuff but when it’s about drugs or prostitution, the customer walk away… Where the interests lies huh?

By: Knarf

Knarf — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:12:01 +0000

Kiwis are welcome in Canada :)

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Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:10:29 +0000

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By: Devanite

Devanite — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:58:17 +0000

On one side of this arguement, there is the Corporation (be it RIAA MPAA EMI records WB Disney… ) with thier arms controlling pretty much any politician they can buy worldwide, putting huge money into news stories which are less informative about real world events then the Simpsons (yea I said it, I hope I get a copyright infringement) and of course the usual attempts to counter the flow of ALL free data.

On the other side you have some politicians, a disorganized conglomorate of citizens of various nations using many small voices and no real money, a handful of university professors and thier students (with again very little in the way of money) who try to uphold the ideals of free democracy!!!

The problem here is money, when you have such a huge corporation and the money behind it you can change public opinion because lets face it, the general public is mostly retarded on the whole internet issue and they think that if these laws are passed the internet will still be the same place it is ten years from now!!!

If we had an ad campaign that went something along these lines then the situation would not be as bad as it were today!

“You wouldnt stop buying beer and just buy it from the tap at a bar would you?

You wouldnt blow up your governments offices would you?

You wouldnt vote for Hitler would you?

SUPPORT DEMOCRACY AND VOTE PIRATE”… or possibly green if you are in Canada like me!

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Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:22:20 +0000

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