New Zealand P2P proposal: guilty until proven innocent

The "guilty until proven innocent" provision was present in a prior version of the legislation, was dropped after public outcry, and has magically appeared again without notice.

If it was not suitable before, why is it suitable now?

Sometimes I hate politicians.

This remind me of the HADOPI law in France.

First, the parliament vote the law. That law is rejected, on the grounds that it does not respect the French constitution. (Among other things, there was the fact that cutting off an internet connection amounts to sever the freedom of expression of the accused. Only a Judge is supposed to be able to do that, and the HADOPI law didn't involve one.)

Second, they vote the law again, deferring the anti-constitutional parts to the application decrees. This law is now applied, despite many thorny problems (not respecting the presumption of innocence is one of them).

If politicians are people's representatives, then as people, we're getting increasingly more stupid.

Surely can't last long. Simply repeatedly accuse public officials of infringement while working at govt. offices.