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New Zealand 'reconsidering' three-strikes law
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article published on 29 March, 2009
Last October, New Zealand adopted a '3 Strikes' law for pirates, meaning alleged pirates are given two warnings before having their Internet shut off.
The bill, reads as follows:
Internet service provider must have policy for terminating accounts of repeat infringers
(1) An Internet service provider must adopt and reasonably implement a policy that provides for termination, in appropriate ... [ read the full article ]
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29. March 2009 @ 21:14 |
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If ISP's were smart they would tell, RIAA/MPAA to shove there over costly idea's where the sun don't shine.
if we ever have technically inclined people in the senate instead of old geezer's, i await the day someones laughs in there face.
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windsong
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29. March 2009 @ 23:10 |
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Originally posted by DXR88:
if we ever have technically inclined people in the senate instead of old geezer's,
Will never happen. Senators, like all politicians, are LAWYERS, not IT specialists, programmers or even Ars Technica readers. Their job is to legislate, then take other people's money..in taxes.
They are THIEVES.
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30. March 2009 @ 03:58 |
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I cant imagine that NZ has that much problem with piracy. Everyone I know that lives there has shitty bandwidth (less than 2Mbs) and a cap to boot.
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30. March 2009 @ 05:40 |
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This bill was officially canned two weeks ago.
btw NZ has lots of ADSL2+ now around the main centers.
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30. March 2009 @ 22:15 |
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Originally posted by djgizmo:
I cant imagine that NZ has that much problem with piracy. Everyone I know that lives there has shitty bandwidth (less than 2Mbs) and a cap to boot.
20GB cap at the moment, and the speed isn't too bad if you live right by the exchange in the main citys.
With movies and TV series hitting DVD and up on torrent sites in the states before they come out in theatres here its all too tempting to just download them.
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31. March 2009 @ 04:52 |
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Originally posted by kiwi1:
This bill was officially canned two weeks ago.
btw NZ has lots of ADSL2+ now around the main centers.
Lots do we,news to me since i'm in Auckland & the schedule for start of ADSL2 rollout is sometime around 2012 for Manurewa,now that's when they think they'll start rolling it, however it could be like it was for DSL & add another year,from memory the roll out only started early last year so there's along way to go.
As for the piracy law it was never going to pass in it's present state
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31. March 2009 @ 05:09 |
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Originally posted by kiwi1:
This bill was officially canned two weeks ago.
btw NZ has lots of ADSL2+ now around the main centers.
Lots do we,news to me since i'm in Auckland & the schedule for start of ADSL2 rollout is sometime around 2012 for Manurewa,now that's when they think they'll start rolling it, however it could be like it was for DSL & add another year,from memory the roll out only started early last year so there's along way to go.
As for the piracy law it was never going to pass in it's present state
Im going to assume your with telecom.
Orcon have done most of auckland long ago and are flat out unbundleing the rest of the country.
Im in little pukekohe and get 10mb down/850kbs up 25GB plan, extra data over 25GB is $1 per gig, no slow down.
look here for orcons ADSL2+ coverage (purple areas)
http://www.orcon.net.nz/home/page/about_orcon_plus
I notice there is a lot of purple around Manurewa :D
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31. March 2009 @ 14:35 |
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Quote:
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Originally posted by kiwi1:
Im going to assume your with telecom.
Orcon have done most of auckland long ago and are flat out unbundleing the rest of the country.
Im in little pukekohe and get 10mb down/850kbs up 25GB plan, extra data over 25GB is $1 per gig, no slow down.
look here for orcons ADSL2+ coverage (purple areas)
http://www.orcon.net.nz/home/page/about_orcon_plus
I notice there is a lot of purple around Manurewa :D
looks like i'm gett'n a new provider
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2. April 2009 @ 08:31 |
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The beauty of the 3 strike law is they were hoping not to have to prove anything. Anything that addresses millions of possible offenders can't take much more effort than a letter.
DXR88, the ISPs are far smarter than that. Mine is all for 'helping'. They have agreed to send out letters for the media mafia but they want to be compensated 'fairly' for their effort. They have been in negotiation for months and it will never be resolved. The media mafia will never cough up a fair compensation. My ISP knew that all along. The MM is pure sleaze. My ISP can say they are bending over backwards to help but not do a thing.
As long as P2P helps their business and doesn't hurt it they are not going to let the sleazeballs interfere with their business. They will just appear to be helpful.
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pmshah
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8. April 2009 @ 21:43 |
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From what I have read I feel we in India are much better off.
I don't have the best of services - 2mbps down, 512 kbps up, for both http and p2p - UNLIMITED USAGE from 9.00 pm to 9.00 am for equivalent of NZ$ 12/= per month. To top it all we have dynamic IP for most part which makes it quite difficult to track.
The best part is ISPs don't care what we do !!!
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