Recently the government of NZ have passed a file sharing bill, which basically is if you are accused of downloading, or "pirating" copyrighted material, you are "guilty until proven innocent" and you are eligible to be questioned by your ISP and possibly be kicked off the internet for 6 months and can receive a huge fine of $15,000. So if I lived in NZ and downloaded a song, that would be about 1 dollar AUD on iTunes, but I torrent it, I could be fined for $15,000. And if I was accused I would get the exact same consequence unless I'm proven innocent. Why do you guys think the law was passed so fast? I have no idea why.

That's heavy man. No more free stuff. They'll find another way, though.

That's pretty harsh, they must really not want people pirating over there any more.

If you steal 1000 dollars you are obligated to do more than just pay 1000 dollars back. To imply this is horribly unfair and victimizing is laughable.
As for the guilty until proven innocent, I don't know how you could be accused without clearly being guilty to begin with. I would also like to see a citation of this, please.
I assume the bill was passed so quickly because everybody agreed to it.


How unfortunate.
I was hoping internet freedom would expand, so we could burgle people's houses over the web.