[ga] New Zealand's Recording Industry CEO Tries to Defend New Draconian

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Seems NZ's corp interests to some degree is wanting to get rid
of users without so much as a how do you do...  Yet as we have
seen very few ISP's in NZ are very accepting of this nonsense.
Perhaps they are stronger advocates of due process of law...

Campbell Smith, CEO of the RIAA equivalent in
New Zealand, has written an opinion piece for one of New Zealand's
largest daily papers, in which he tries to
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10560605&ref=rss

justify the new 'presumed guilty' copyright law. This law allows
recording
industry members to watch file-sharing activity and notify ISPs of users
who
are downloading material. The copyright holder can then demand that an
ISP disconnect that user without the user ever having a chance to
demonstrate
their evidence."

Regards,

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