New Zealand: Controversial Internet Piracy Bill Becomes Law
April 14th, 2011If at first you don’t succeed, try again under urgency.
Via: Stuff:
A bill that could see internet users have their access cut off if they repeatedly share copyright material has been passed by Parliament.
The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill, which aims to stamp out internet piracy, passed by 111 votes to 11 this morning.
It was supported by all parties except the Greens and independent MPs Chris Carter and Hone Harawira.
these pricks (the bunch of criminals currently mascarading as the “New Zealand Government”) seem to have reached some sort of new plane of nirvana-like impunity–for their own actions only though. like the US, NZ has an ingenious “two-party system” of “democracy” (wink, wink).
anyway, for your further amusement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfGYfg37aUA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW-Sqtqfadw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IIyk1y9o_8
nz “democracy” (sic) at work!
sock puppets R us! oozing with ignorance, and proud!
a paraphrased summary (the vids above are parliamentary speeches during the law’s passing under urgency) for those who don’t want to waste their time listening to this shit:
“we will do ANYTHING for the Hollywood-Studio-and-RIAA-mafia! but we don’t hve a grasp of anything. quick, make us cabinet ministers!”
111 votes for
11 votes against
“sham” is hardly strong enough to describe this abomination.
Somewhere there’s a story about how the government paid for limousines to carry the Warner Bros. executives around during the Hobbit flap. Remember that madness?
It was like a dire national security situation was unfolding with breaking news updates and all the rest. Warner Bros. crooks were meeting directly with the PM. *sigh* To me, it looked like a sad cargo cult ritual, and I definitely wasn’t the only one who felt that way. This legislation was, I have no doubt, part of the bowing down and ring kissing.
I wonder how many outages will be caused by the ISPs trying to implement the filters? This whole thing is held together with duct tape on a good day and forcing all the companies to inspect every bit of traffic for naughtiness isn’t going to be a trivial technical undertaking. Ah well. Maybe they’ll get the Narus suite of surveillance tools up and running here!
But at least the Hobbit will probably be a good show.
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Here it is:
Govt paid $6000 limo tab for Warner Bros in Hobbit talks
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10693574
National Party govts, since their inception in 1949 have always been f***ing awful, but this bunch of shysters seem to know no bounds of f***ing awfulness. in the past, there was always one of two cabinet ministers and a handful of National MPs who would be relatively trustworthy and call out the worst bullshit. but among this slimy collection of chancers i cannot detct a single one worth their salt. and it is made worse by the faker “Labour” Party who are also about as trustworthy as, i dunno, a plague of GS salesmen with a suitcase of toxic CDO tranches.
case study: “the dumbing down of a whole country in 30 short years”… an ethnographers’ field day.
The first sentence of the Stuff article should have read:
“A bill that could see internet users have their access cut off if they repeatedly *accused* of sharing copyright material has been passed by Parliament.”
Might have also been helpful to note that this wonderful law also lets the accused make a submission if they believe they are innocent, however the accuser gets to judge on that submission.
Some helpful links if you want non-shouty facts on this new law:
http://techliberty.org.nz/quick-guide-to-the-new-copyright-bill/
http://claudius.sitharus.com/~sitharus/copyright.xhtml
So, it could have been worse. Make no mistake: This is still a bad law, however it’s a lot weaker than the one initially proposed as part of the ACTA treaty. (aka: “Thank you for the beating, kind master. I appreciate your infinite mercy in making this beating slightly less harsh than normal”)