Crap Copyright Amendment

[Filterer]

Seedboxes are where its at these days - pay a small sum to a hosting company in some overseas country where the laws are a little more lax - say Sweden - and you get control over a box to download your torrents to.

From there you simple download over an encrypted tunnel back to your home pc

Check out http://filesharefreak.com/2008/05/04...ting-services/

[James Deuce]

Yes this is bad, we should take some action against this. I propose some good old fashion riots! Whos with me.

Can I borrow your avatar?

[Disco Dan]

Crikey, not like the internet connections are any good anyway... would take a week to get in trouble.

Be quicker to walk.

[oldguy]

No great loss, mean's I'd spend more time riding, and meeting people in person than sitting here in the dark naked, in front of my computer.

[James Deuce]

No great loss, mean's I'd spend more time riding, and meeting people in person than sitting here in the dark naked, in front of my computer.

All of you who feel this way, please log off and stay off so the rest of us can have decent throughput and lower latency.

Cheers.

[McJim]

I think the problem is most people dont really know they're doing it.
I hope you all realise most images in your avatars or sigs is in breech of the copyright act.
guitar tabs are copyright work.

My avatar is me - I paid for the photo. The photo in my sig was taken by Gremlin - he sez I can use it.

No great loss, mean's I'd spend more time riding, and meeting people in person than sitting here in the dark naked, in front of my computer.

You're tryin' to make me hard aren't you?

[Hitcher]

lower latency.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

[Okey Dokey]

I don't understand the law, I have no idea how it may affect me. The Labour government passed so many sloppily written laws that it is hard to keep track of them all.

I did my own avatar so I guess that is okay.

[Usarka]

So if they don't change it before it comes into effect I can get a mate overseas to accuse the NZ government and their ISP will disconnect them...... cool...

[St_Gabriel]

So if they don't change it before it comes into effect I can get a mate overseas to accuse the NZ government and their ISP will disconnect them...... cool...

Why get your mate to do it?, Just do it yourself (though I doubt you will have to as there are a few ppl already planning this).
The main issue to me is guilt upon ACCUSATION, not proof. If the accusation is later proven false, there is absolutely no recourse upon the person who accused you, and you are still cutoff by your ISP
The cynical side of me is also thinking that certain ISP's (xtra) may use this to finally get rid of ppl who still have their MAX (what a joke) plan with no down/uploading limits.

[mashman]

This has been coming for the last 2 - 3 years, maybe even longer. The movie and music industry are losing billions every year and they're not going to get their money back by taking you or me to court (not that I pirate of course). So they've tried to shutdown torrent sites. Unfortunately they've realised that they're wasting their time because the pirateers aren't stupid... so the only way to do it is to tell the ISP's that they are, by default, an accomplice... they monitor our URLS and now they have a legal responsibility to stop us from breaking the law by (ab)using their networks... Can't say i'm surprised, no it won't stop it completely. And i'm not for it or against it either...

Now if a certain global monster, let's call them "Bony, that should have started with an S" where using some of their profit to building wells in Africa, help the needy etc... it'd be another story.... but they wouldn't, so I may download "trial" music and movies off the net from time to time...

[Quasievil]

When does posted information become public property, I think once you put anything on the internet it is then public and free.

[Sollyboy]

, and was largely a knee jerk response to "protect" the recorded music industry.

I think NZ's first hurdle is to make some music worth actually down loading , NZ music is shit

[imdying]

Hahahhah, they're doomed... sneaker net still works too well... half a dozen TB drives in a carton goes a loooong way.

[imdying]

When does posted information become public property, I think once you put anything on the internet it is then public and free.

You might wanna reconsider that champ... you put your banking login and password on the net every time you login