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Comment by marssaxman | Hacker News Reader

New Zealand seems like such a sensible place.

http://3strikes.net.nz/information/law-basics :\

That's a nasty one, but such an easy law to avoid. Use direct downloads or download movies, since the movie companies are protesting paying costs by not filing complaints.

I'd rather it didn't exist though.

Even in its nastiness it is sensible in its own right - $25 cost for the copyright holder to send a notice. The notice can also be challenged by the accused infringer.

Well, also you can't get another notice within 28 days.

And if I recall correctly, you have to get three notices within 9 months.

So basically if you manage to spend less than 1/3rd of your time "On Notice" you should be sweet as.

DISCLAIMER: IANAL

EDIT: Actually, fence-post error. The correct figure is ~2/9ths, as penalties trigger on the receipt of the third notice (so we can't count its period).

I think everyone forgot about the 3 strikes law here.

None of the big ISP's enforce it AT ALL.

I've heard a couple of small ISP's kick a couple of people off back when it was first introduced but since then there's been nothing.

Considering most of my friends here all torrent everything off The Pirate Bay (They don't use private trackers :p), I don't think I've heard of a single person I know get in trouble.

Telecom NZ would see that enforcing that law as a cost to them (they are pretty anal about spending money on things other than marketing), so they would probably not do anything until the government takes them to court.

My father got a letter from his small ISP saying that they won't be playing along the the three strike thing, and for some reason even if they wanted to they couldn't be sure which of their customers was the infringer. Heavily suspicious, but not 100%. So carry on, we got your back. He is just outside Tauranga.

It is... sometimes.

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