nsane.forums Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 In 2008, the New Zealand government introduced a "three-strikes’ law which was designed to have alleged copyright infringers disconnected from the Internet. The legislation, commonly referred to as Section92, went largely unnoticed until the media picked it up.The media attention led to widespread protests. Most noticeable was ‘Operation Blackout’, where hundreds of thousands ‘blacked out’ their profile images on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, and not without success. The objections eventually caused the government to scrap the law and go back to the drawing board. Not for long though.Fast forward a few months and the government already has a new and ‘improved’ version of the anti-piracy legislation ready. The new plan no longer includes the ‘guilty upon accusation” section where consumers had little options to appeal a potential disconnection. However, the new text also includes the option for copyright holders to demand $15,000 in damages from repeated copyright infringers.“I want to stress that account holders will have the opportunity during each of these processes to defend claims by right holders,” Commerce Minister Simon Power said in a comment. Under the new law, ISPs would no longer be obliged to simply disconnect every user accused of repeatedly downloading copyrighted material, without solid proof. Instead, all account holders can request a hearing at the Copyright Tribunal if they don’t agree with the proposed penalty or the evidence presented against them.From current reports it is not clear how the copyright holders will collect evidence on alleged copyright infringers. The past has shown that their data gathering techniques are not always the most accurate, to say the least. If this is the case, we can expect to see many appeals once the new proposals become law in the coming year. Article from: TorrentFreak, check out our new blog at FreakBits. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow_Intel Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Yes i heard this news yesterday and it was on the news saying you get 3 warnings then $15,000 fine, im at risk, Is there a way to protect me? im from New Zealand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 @Shadow_Intel:You better use VPN or TOR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 16, 2009 Administrator Share Posted December 16, 2009 Use VPN, as Biz has mentioned before, TOR doesn't work on torrents.Use UltraVPN. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 TOR doesn't work on torrents.What about BitBlinder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 16, 2009 Administrator Share Posted December 16, 2009 Hmm. I totally forgot about it and I didn't had any time to test it. :(But hey it may work wonders. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 I haven't tested it as well, but they claim it works the same way TOR does.All the same, I'm sticking to µTorrent :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 16, 2009 Administrator Share Posted December 16, 2009 What. I thought it works with (u)Torrent. :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow_Intel Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 So should use VPN then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 17, 2009 Administrator Share Posted December 17, 2009 First try BitBlinder. Forget utorrent for the time bein if BitBlinder is also a torrent client.Well if your ISP can track you, VPN may not be 100% safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow_Intel Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Ok i going to try BitBlinder, i was Azue with data encryption so my ISP did not know what i was Downloading. Cheers mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Yes i heard this news yesterday and it was on the news saying you get 3 warnings then $15,000 fine, im at risk, Is there a way to protect me? im from New Zealand.newsgroups Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow_Intel Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Yes i heard this news yesterday and it was on the news saying you get 3 warnings then $15,000 fine, im at risk, Is there a way to protect me? im from New Zealand.newsgroupsWhat are you on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Owl Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 I think myidisbb was referring to Usenet newsgroups. I'm not sure if this would be 100% safe though. It is a great source for downloading, but some newsgroups for the last while have a lot of viruses posted that you have to beware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 First try BitBlinder. Forget utorrent for the time bein if BitBlinder is also a torrent client.Well if your ISP can track you, VPN may not be 100% safe.ISPs aren't tracking you, that's still the 'law enforcement' agencies.A VPN will pretty much obstruct them(law enforcement agencies) from tracking you ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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