The US isn't the only nation with terrible copyright laws

[unixronin]

Move over, Joe Biden.  New Zealand just went you one better.  The NZ Parliament has rolled over for the RIANZ (the Kiwi equivalent of RIAA), and passed a harsh new copyright law.

Here in the US, the RIAA accuses people of content piracy and drags them into court all the time ... but they still have to prove their allegations in court.  (Though even the RIAA have recently acknowledged that perhaps sueing their own market perhaps might not have been the best business plan.)  But under New Zealand's Copyright Amendment Act 2008, Section 92A and 92C, you're guilty if accused — and if you're accused, your ISP (which, in New Zealand, now means ANYONE who provides you with Internet service) is required by the new law to cut off your Internet service.

Comments

[milktree.livejournal.com]

Wait, seriously? I'm not going to be a blind apologist for Obama, but seriously, he's got a *lot* to think about right now. He's just now getting to rescinding Bush's ban on stem cell research, and that's a total no brainer.

It's only February, he's been in office a couple days over a month. Give him a chance.

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. What I am looking at is the team of governance that he is putting together. In almost every case, it is people that have experience in restricting the liberties that I hold dear. It is very true that there are liberties that I keep track of, but am not as concerned about. Myopic, but that is where I am coming from.

Embryonic stem cell research is not a civil liberty. (It has also been a research dead end.) Frankly, I don't care about the restriction. I just don't care either way. It has nothing to do with my constitutional liberties.