Hop to it! – Hollywood orders New Zealand
p2pnet news view Politics | Movies:- A salaried employee of FACT, a hard-core Hollywood lobby group which answers only to the studios and their MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), is issuing instructions to the New Zealand government.
And the the Dominion Post, a major New Zealand daily owned by the Australian Fairfax group, publishers of The Age, Melbourne, and The Sydney Morning Herald, is reporting it as though it’s something to be taken seriously.
“United States movie studios have toughened their attitude towards the New Zealand Government’s proposed compromise on tackling internet piracy,” says the story.
“Federation Against Copyright Theft executive director Tony Eaton has signalled the lobby group may push for a ’streamlined’ enforcement regime that would mean people accused of piracy could be cut off from the internet without a full hearing.”
New Zealand is still trying to dance to the tune laid down by the corporate movie and music cartels, said p2pnet recently, going on:
“With taxpayers footing the bill.”
FACT, “initially welcomed a proposal to redraft the scrapped section 92a of the Copyright Act, which was put out for consultation by Commerce Minister Simon Power last month,” says the story.
But it, “now says the Government would be ‘moving backward’ if it pressed ahead with the proposal. The original section 92a would have forced internet service providers to cut off copyright infringers “in reasonable circumstances”, acting on evidence from copyright holders.
“Under the new proposal, developed by experts appointed by the Economic Development Ministry, cases would be heard by arbitrators or the Copyright Tribunal, which would have the power to fine or disconnect pirates.”
But that’s not what Hollywood wants.
“We were engaged with the Government and officials and were going down one line of thought, and then they have come back with something totally different that we were not expecting,” the story has Eaton saying.
“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.”
And that wouldn’t suit Hollywood, FACT or the MPAA at all.
Due process is something to be avoided at all costs.
Someone should ’signal’ not only the New Zealand government, but governments around the world that, thanks to the net, the people who elected them are now in charge, not a bunch of venal movie industry dinosaurs whose only interest is in making their shareholders happy.
hard-core Hollywood lobby group – Taxpayer funded korporate kopyright kops, July 8, 2009
Dominion Post – Studios want copyright justice ’streamlined’, August 10, 2009
p2pnet – New Zealand bows to cartel demands, July 13, 2009
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August 13th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
why do we even have laws and constitutions when private companies are not following them, when did they become above the law, when did they become in the position to write their own laws, this is another example that money talks and american bizniz does what it wants where ever it feels like it being done.
just think if the american government had the same power as the kartels to force foreign governments into submission, now thats a scary thought
August 13th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
When America says jump, the answer had better well be “How high master?” if you know what’s good for you. /s
August 13th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
“We were engaged with the Government and officials and were going down one line of thought, and then they have come back with something totally different that we were not expecting…”
Sort of like what happens with us and the CRTC, except I feel no sympathy for them.
August 13th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
And how exactly is this going to persuade people to buy their fu**ing films. These clowns will never learn.
August 13th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Just keep pirating and sucking the juice out of these goddamn corporations.
August 13th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
what a crock!,they will never get the law passed without due process,kiwis will not be pushed around as was proven with the BLACK OUT in march this year.The National government got back in after 9 years of Labour because we got sick of the nanny state telling us what to do.National will be too scared of another 9 years in the wilderness if they piss us off too much,for that reason we will beat them down again.Internet disconnection is an unreasonable penalty for the “crime” seeing as we are so isolated from the rest of world.WATCH HOLLYWOOD FAIL AGAIN!!!.
August 13th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Telstra clear are legends,first they withdraw from consultation on a code of practice,then they do a random survey that shows all 1048 people questioned had downloaded something in the last 12 months and then they go on our current affairs program “close up” and tell APRA ” your business model is obsolete so deal with it.”
It’s a shame more phone companies don’t grow some balls like these guys.
http://www.telstraclear.co.nz/company-info/media-release-template.cfm?newsid=348
http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/download-your-peril-2891198/video