{"id":791,"date":"2011-09-01T09:41:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T21:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/?p=791"},"modified":"2012-02-22T15:41:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T02:41:02","slug":"fun-facts-about-the-new-copyright-law-a-bulletpoint-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/fun-facts-about-the-new-copyright-law-a-bulletpoint-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun facts about the new copyright law &#8211; A bulletpoint list"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"8781ca4f97038dd0d58a1ad8af045721\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-6411751809866006\";\r\n\/* BlogHorizontalSlim *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"6442664612\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>So it&#8217;s September 1st, the new law comes into effect today, but here&#8217;s a light-hearted look at a few interesting \/ fun facts that you should know about the new law.<br \/>\nThis is a follow-up from my previous look into <a title=\"How TO get caught downloading via P2P under the new law\" href=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/how-to-get-caught-downloading-via-p2p-under-the-new-law\/\">how you would get caught downloading via P2P \/ Bittorrent<\/a>, and how the copright holders track you down.<br \/>\n<strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Paul Brislen who is head of the Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand (TUANZ) has done an interview with NZ Herald, similar to this article. It&#8217;s also well worth watching the reply of the interview : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/business\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=3&amp;objectid=10748747\">http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/business\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=3&amp;objectid=10748747<\/a> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Infringements since the 11th of August count, so if you downloaded a movie on the 12th of August, you may end up with a letter (email) about it today.\n <\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s only the account holder who gets the notifications. From there, your ISP and the copyright holders don&#8217;t care. If your name is on the bill, the WHOLE internet connection is your responsibility\n <\/li>\n<li>With the previous statement in mind, it&#8217;s worth noting that there are NO readily available and easy ways for the average consumer \/ household \/ small-business to easily monitor and control their internet connection\n <\/li>\n<li>The new law was passed in a rush, but at the time it basically had support from both Labour (Who are now doing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/technology\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=5&amp;objectid=10748540\">dobule-take on their stance<\/a>) and National.\n <\/li>\n<li>No, the Internet is not Skynet from the Terminator movies. Jonathan Young was a moron for suggesting that.\n <\/li>\n<li>The law is about stopping the &#8220;casual&#8221; or &#8220;opportunist&#8221; person who may try their luck to get away with it. The &#8220;real&#8221; or &#8220;big-time&#8221; infringers know how to get around the law. It&#8217;s about changing the culture and perception of copyright infringement.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/li>\n<li> You get 3 notifications (After each notification you get about a fortnight of &#8216;immunity&#8217;), on the 3rd notification you can be fined $15,000 (Or at least, the internet account holder can be) or your internet can be cut off for 6 months\n <\/li>\n<li>No word yet on if your spouse or another member of your family can simply re-sign up if you do get disconnected\n <\/li>\n<li>Mostly, it&#8217;s going to be about the money, not the disconnecting.\n <\/li>\n<li>This law is basically about making it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">easier<\/span> for the US copyright holders  to get money out of people in New Zealand.\n <\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/tvnz.co.nz\/technology-news\/us-lobbied-nz-over-copyright-laws-wikileaks-cables-4149178\">US had a real hand<\/a> in this law <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbr.co.nz\/opinion\/wikileaks-cables-us-govt-pressured-nz-over-internet-file-sharing-law\">coming into effect<\/a> &#8212; Bullying tactics?\n <\/li>\n<li> Copyright Infringement Notifications have been sent in the past. Before this law it was just a heck of a lot harder for overseas copyright holders to extract money from you. See an example from 2008: <a href=\"http:\/\/pastie.org\/2461919\">http:\/\/pastie.org\/2461919<br \/>\n <\/a><\/li>\n<li>This law only targets peer-to-peer (P2P) such as bittorrent, emule, limewire \/ frostwire. It doesn&#8217;t target Server-to-Client such as Rapidshare or MegaUpload, nor does it target streaming.<strong>NOTE:<\/strong> This doesn&#8217;t make streaming TV \/ Movies legal, it just means they&#8217;re not targetted under this law. Watching videos \/ music on YouTube is pretty much definitely &#8220;safe&#8221;, but downloading the files with online converters isn&#8217;t (Never has been), and watching some shows on there isn&#8217;t legal either. Downloading from <strong>iTunes<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is still legit and 100% ideal \/ legal<\/span>!\n <\/li>\n<li> Movies \/ Music aren&#8217;t the only things illegal. It can be illegal for you to download pictures, ebooks etc and you could be caught downloading any for them.\n <\/li>\n<li> If you download via P2P over the Cellular network, such as tethering your phone to your PC, you&#8217;re exempt under the law until 2013. This doesn&#8217;t make it legal, it&#8217;s just a &#8220;loophole&#8221; so to speak\n <\/li>\n<li> Peerblockers \/ PeerGuardian software is useless &#8211; Don&#8217;t think it keeps you safe, it doesn&#8217;t, don&#8217;t use it.\n <\/li>\n<li>The people who download lots will still continue to get around this law through the use of Seedboxes, VPNs \/ Darknet&#8217;s, and using Server-to-Client services such as Rapidshare \/ MegaUpload\n <\/li>\n<li>Your ISP doesn&#8217;t actually *care* what you do. They probably don&#8217;t monitor you either. In fact, it&#8217;s in their best interests for you to use more data because they usually get money from you on a per-GB basis. Use more data downloading, they get more money. Easy.\n <\/li>\n<li>A lot of people have a rather cavalier attitude about it, but they won&#8217;t be laughing when somebody comes after them with a $15,000 bill. That side is actually very serious.\n <\/li>\n<li>Kids (teenagers \/ young-adults), make sure your parents name is on the bill, not your own.\n <\/li>\n<li>Adults, if you piss your kids off, there&#8217;s bugger all most of you can really do to stop them from downloading something and getting caught.\n <\/li>\n<li>Be careful when your kids friends bring over their laptops and things. It&#8217;s quite common for people to do it at a house that is not their own, simply because they don&#8217;t have to &#8220;use their own data cap&#8221;.\n <\/li>\n<li>Work-places \/ Small businesses? Haha you&#8217;re buggered too, you have my sympathy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>What can you do about it?<\/h1>\n<p>In-short, trust goes a  long way, families should talk with their kids about it. Heck it&#8217;s real enough that I&#8217;d suggest you even look at doing some sort of a &#8216;family meeting&#8217; around the dinner table and discuss it.<\/p>\n<p>However, for some homes \/ businesses that&#8217;s simply not an option, not to mention it doesn&#8217;t protect against if your kids have friends over. Or flatting situations.<\/p>\n<p>See about installing a router utilizing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gargoyle-router.com\/\">http:\/\/www.gargoyle-router.com<\/a> firmware. This will allow you to block P2P, bittorrent and other things. It&#8217;s cheap, cost-effective, and shouldn&#8217;t set you back more than $250 for both a new router AND modem. Maybe only $150 if you just get the new router. Just make sure you buy one that&#8217;s compatible with Gargoyle!<\/p>\n<p>Post in the comments  if you&#8217;re after help, or seek assistance on the likes of PressF1.co.nz<br \/>\nDrop me a quick note to say hi if this has helped you in any way \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s September 1st, the new law comes into effect today, but here&#8217;s a light-hearted look at a few interesting \/ fun facts that you should know about the new law. 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