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Movie industry wants the right to take your house off the net (torrentfreak.com)
20 points by gasull on Aug 13, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



... in New Zealand.


Damnit. Is there any country with reasonable laws left? Or do I have to make my own?


All in favor of creating HackerNewsLand?


“The concern is that we send out 1000 infringement notices, and then someone says, `The way to stall this is let’s all go to arbitration’, and a year later we could still be going through that same process,” Eaton said.

“Do we get to the point where we have 1000 cases to be heard by the Copyright Tribunal? If everyone brings their lawyer, we will only do five in a day,” he added.

Sadly, that is a good point. The proposed system is fair traditionally, but when everyone argues that copyright law is severely outdated, perhaps this system needs other review as well.




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