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NZ blacks out Internet to protest guilt upon accusation law

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Re: NZ blacks out Internet to protest guilt upon accusation law

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Not that I would condone illegal activity, but why not disconnect the Internet at the lawmakers' office buildings? Or, even better, after the 28th, setup a server in the office building hidden somewhere that's sharing a ridiculous amount of copyrighted material. And do it in such a way that the police will find out. Then the police have to choose between breaking a stupid law and disconnecting the people who passed i…

Once this law is in effect, you ought to be able to DoS the lawmakers by just (frivolously) claiming they were infringing copyright. If different people keep doing this (DDoS effectively) this could be kept up for a while. I suspect there's a danger of having to cover costs/damages if they investigate the case and it turns out there was never any infringement, but incorrectly claiming copyright infringement is hardly going to be a criminal offense.

Re: NZ blacks out Internet to protest guilt upon accusation law

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Cool, this expression is about as useful as boycotting gas companies for one day. Anyone who thinks things like this that go down on social networking sites scares the politicians is so naive and silly. The lawmakers aren't going to listen until their threatened with the loss of a big special interest or something arises that could potentially generate a large enough stink in the media that the population doesn't vot…

I don't think the intention is to scare lawmakers with a protest online - it's about calling attention to it so more people put the pressure on the lawmakers in the usual ways. In light of that, even though I'm not from nor have ever visited New Zealand, I blacked out my Twitter avatar today, too. It could happen here someday. (True for any value of "here", IMO.)
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