And how long before the kids discover they can knock each others' websites over simply by calling an ISP? The holidays are rapidly approaching... -----Original Message----- From: Juha Saarinen [mailto:juha(a)saarinen.org] Sent: Tuesday, 28 October 2008 9:58 a.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: [nznog] That Copyright Act again This is, I believe, an operational issue... I was reading this Computerworld story over the weekend: http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/117D6C93C541D21ACC2574EF0018538 7 in which Mathew Bolland of TelstraClear says: 'TelstraClear's head of corporate services, Mathew Bolland, says from November 1, if TelstraClear hosts a website and someone phones up complaining that site has breached their copyright, TelstraClear will have to take the site down. "We don't check or verify," he says. "We take it down."' When Section 92A popped up, this is what everyone thought would happen, but assumed wouldn't because in Bolland's words, "this is a ridiculous situation." Presumably, the take-downs will only happen for individual sites and those of small businesses unable to stump up the big legal fees to contest such actions - or is everyone affected, no matter what size? How many of you will follow TelstraClear and Xnet (which is already terminating customers if they receive complaints from copyright holders) and take down sites without checking or verifying complaints? -- Juha Saarinen juha(a)saarinen.org www.techsploder.com _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unless otherwise stated, any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent those of Vodafone New Zealand Limited.