Even New Zealand isn't immune to insane over-reaction to the perceived threat of online copyright infringement. They have created a law to kick people off the internet (permanently) on the basis of three unsubstantiated accusations of copyright infringement."Of all the unreasonable and awful proposals to come out of the entertainment industry, none is so bad as the three-strikes rule, a rule that would leave everyday people vulnerable to having the connection that brings them freedom of speech, of assembly and the press, the link that connects them to family, school, work and government, terminated because someone, somewhere made three accusations of copyright infringement, without having to offer a shred of evidence."
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