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SunSpyda · 01-06-2009, 01:30 AM

I wrote about a New Zealand law a while ago that stated that users could be disconnected after 3 strikes. Many comments left by T-I users show that there was many opposition to it. Just when we thought it couldn't be worse than this, a new, even worse law is scheduled next month, that throws the '3 Strike' system away. 3 strikes? Next month it will become 1. As soon as you are accused of illegal file sharing, you are guilty. End of story.

Section 92 is to be introduced at the end of February 2009 & will affect New Zealand. This law is simple; If you are caught illegally file sharing in New Zealand, you ARE guilty, no mistakes made. If you're guilty, you will face immediate disconnection from the internet. If your WiFi network is broken into, or for any other reason illegal file sharing happens on your network without you knowing, you will have the internet removed if you get caught, even if it wasn't anything to do with you.

Against this law is the 'Creative Freedom Foundation'. Co-founder & director says internet disconnections will happen "Without evidence or even trial.".

If you want to oppose this upcoming law, then sign the petition on the Creative Freedom Federation website -
http://creativefreedom.org.nz/

1 strike & you're disconnected? Wow, these anti-P2P guys mean it.... =)

Just fixing a few spelling mistakes
-ethicks

gshock82 · 01-06-2009, 01:18 PM

I don't know what's worse being disco'd, or this:

Quote:

The power of anti piracy organizations is constantly growing and latest news from Great Britain sounds somehow scary: The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Union’s council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state which drives “a coach and horses” through privacy laws. The hacking is known as “remote searching”. It allows police or MI5 officers who may be hundreds of miles away to examine covertly the hard drive of someone’s PC at his home, office or hotel room. Material gathered in this way includes the content of all e-mails, web-browsing habits and instant messaging.

Under the Brussels edict, police across the EU have been given the green light to expand the implementation of a rarely used power involving warrantless intrusive surveillance of private property. The strategy will allow French, German and other EU forces to ask British officers to hack into someone’s UK computer and pass over any material gleaned. A remote search can be granted if a senior officer says he “believes” that it is “proportionate” and necessary to prevent or detect serious crime — defined as any offence attracting a jail sentence of more than three years. The authorities could break into a suspect’s home or office and insert a “key-logging” device into an individual’s computer. This would collect and, if necessary, transmit details of all the suspect’s keystrokes. The Home Office said it was working with other EU states to develop details of the proposals.

SirenSyd · 01-08-2009, 12:53 PM

Don't police already hack in without a warrant?

ethicks · 01-08-2009, 02:57 PM

yes police do, but its in their jurisdiction if they
believe it to be a endangerment to society
(and that can be slapped on so easily) it's
basically a loophole in law but god knows there are plenty of those.

-ethicks

FlyingDrizzle · 01-08-2009, 06:40 PM

Yeah. I believe everything I hear too.

Joy Division · 01-09-2009, 06:41 AM

I'm glad I live in Canada :)

peanutfairy · 01-10-2009, 01:18 AM

O Canada indeed... though you never know with Harper... we could be on our way off to anti-piracy hell at any moment :P

kunal_1988 · 01-10-2009, 05:18 AM

thanks for sharing

free.load · 01-13-2009, 10:31 AM

wow!
this is really unconstitutional!!! i think the cops are going to abuse it and the policy is going to be adoped in many more countries

time for me to move to sweden and get a job at the pirate bay...

goofy · 01-13-2009, 11:45 AM

lol... its good news for some and bad for the others