You Could Be Kicked Offline for Piracy If This Music Industry Lawsuit Succeeds

Re:You Could Be Kicked Offline for Piracy If This Music Indu... by xyzzy123 on Sunday August 26, 2018 @06:32AM (#17845239)

I liked the pragmatic response in NZ to robo lawsuits. Requesting an ISP lookup of someone’s details cost $20 (some years ago, not sure of current price).

In practice although rights holders might claim that damages were $lots, except in the most egregious cases no-one found it worth $20/user to initiate “legal action”.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:You Could Be Kicked Offline for Piracy If This Music Indu... by WilliamEdward on Sunday August 26, 2018 @07:39AM (#17845459)

That's interesting, thank you. If i torrent 1 movie from netflix, that's only worth about $12 (or whatever monthly subscription). Ignoring all other factors that would make it not worth it to litigate (not a legal court case but just send a letter to an ISP), this is still not worth $20.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:You Could Be Kicked Offline for Piracy If This Music Indu... by xyzzy123 on Sunday August 26, 2018 @07:57AM (#17845531)

I just looked it up as my memory of the process was from an ISP friend over beers several years ago.

It seems the enforcement fee is currently $200 from the rightsholder: https://www.justice.govt.nz/tribunals/copyright/forms-and-fe...

Damages are capped at $15k and awarded by the tribunal as per: https://www.iponz.govt.nz/about-ip/copyright/file-sharing-in...

[ Parent | on HN ]