Government Passing Internet 3-Strikes Law Today

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wreck90

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Topic # 81479 13-Apr-2011 15:32
That was sudden, hadn't heard of this for some time, suddenly it is being made law today. I wonder if the Telcos are ready to implement this yet?

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Reply # 458275 13-Apr-2011 15:39
booooo! http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/4882838/Law-to-fight-internet-piracy-rushed-through

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Reply # 458276 13-Apr-2011 15:39
Linkage please? Mauricio Freitas (Geekzone Admin, Devil's Advocate, my blog, technology disclosure, my tweets, Web Performance Optimization) Geekzone Price comparison \| Amazon Kindle order page \| How to get the best out of Geekzone \| New Zealand IT Jobs \| Geekzone News \| Jinglebugs

wreck90

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Reply # 458278 13-Apr-2011 15:42
I think it is probably a good thing to fight piracy, but, the implementation could be quite flawed.

gjm

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Reply # 458286 13-Apr-2011 15:58
I cant believe that our government would use the guise of the Christchurch earthquake to rush through legislation that is totally irrelevant to what is happening down there. Do they really think we are so dumb that we wouldnt notice? I actually find this reprehensible when so many people in ChCh are still suffering. I am rapidly losing what little respect I had left for politicians. Honestly....WTF???

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Reply # 458288 13-Apr-2011 16:01
gjm: I cant believe that our government would use the guise of the Christchurch earthquake to rush through legislation that is totally irrelevant to what is happening down there. Do they really think we are so dumb that we wouldnt notice? I actually find this reprehensible when so many people in ChCh are still suffering. I am rapidly losing what little respect I had left for politicians. Honestly....WTF??? Really? It is exactly the sort of thing i imagined them doing - let it go quite for a few months then try and slip it under the radar. If they had it their way the only way people would find out is when they receive their first warning.

gjm

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Reply # 458290 13-Apr-2011 16:03
Im not surprised that they would do it, just that they would use the guise of the earthquake. How low can you go?

sleemanj

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Reply # 458294 13-Apr-2011 16:11
I think there's a big movie being made at the moment, something about hobbits or something, movie studios don't like file sharing, governments like movie studios. 2 and 2 = ? --- James Sleeman My hobby - listing small amounts of interesting/useful hobby electronic components hardware and stuff on Trademe for cheap, all good geek stuff for the "maker" revolution ;-) Tip for Trademe addicts: install an addon for your browser to get thumbs for all listings.

maknz

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Reply # 458297 13-Apr-2011 16:15
Voting Labour this year. Even if Goff has a mole, I prefer that to a complete disregard for democracy. 2GB free cloud storage. iPhone 4S (iOS 5.1) \| iMac 27" i7 12GB RAM \| MacBook Air 11" i5 4GB RAM 64GB SSD My posts are my opinion only.

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Reply # 458322 13-Apr-2011 17:01
maknz: Voting Labour this year. Even if Goff has a mole, I prefer that to a complete disregard for democracy. +1, hell may even campaign for labour

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Reply # 458323 13-Apr-2011 17:02
Wasn't Labour the one who originally introduced the act? Let me see... Judith Tizard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Tizard). Yep, that's the one. Mauricio Freitas (Geekzone Admin, Devil's Advocate, my blog, technology disclosure, my tweets, Web Performance Optimization) Geekzone Price comparison \| Amazon Kindle order page \| How to get the best out of Geekzone \| New Zealand IT Jobs \| Geekzone News \| Jinglebugs

PottsyNZ

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Reply # 458327 13-Apr-2011 17:13
Wonder if certain ISPs will pull their torrent caches.

amford

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Reply # 458330 13-Apr-2011 17:17
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2010/0119/latest/DLM3331800.html?search=ts_all%40act%40bill%40regulation_Infringing+File+Sharing_resel&p=1&sr=1

kiwigeek1

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Reply # 458331 13-Apr-2011 17:18
just another weak minded gov to please the yanks one step closer to new world order we need more brave wikileaks people to expose their lying a*;s i think soon there will be a new way of doing p2p .... force more control evolves the web to get around it.. you you ever watches the new series of hungry beast from australia (great docu news series if not seen it) they talk about this thing of copyright and privacy and how the gov dont like us knowing their secrets but want to know all our secrets.. find the show and have a watch.. well worth it.. another good series you can find on p2p to watch called the internet revolution... its unlikely tvnz would show suck quality shows :)

wassname

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Reply # 458334 13-Apr-2011 17:26
The greens have been very opposed to this bill its even written in the comments section for the bill. So they might be useful as a counterpoint to Labor and Nationals corporatism. Even though I don't support lots of their stances.

PottsyNZ

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Reply # 458336 13-Apr-2011 17:26
kiwigeek1: just another weak minded gov to please the yanks Ah I forgot it was a condition of the FTA or something eh?

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