haha, people who say that downloaded music is 'bad quality' obviously don't know the right file sharing sites...

@slaine, you are going to the wrong place to get your warez. I have bought many albums multiple times, for example tools salival twice (limited edition, over $150 each) they both got stolen. WHos getting ripped off? Is tool really losing any money if I download it again? I doubt it. Wake up, we are not all criminals. Boohoo. I don't recall their being any problems when we put our cassette into our stereo too dub a cd ay? I had a massive box full of copied cassettes, probably more than I did of my downloads

I want a list of sites/software we can't use, we are atleast entitled to that.

@ Slaine.

Interesting that you say you don't download, NOT because it's 'wrong' but because the quality is low.

Interesting that you choose to pass judgement on those 'cheapskates', yet, the only thing preventing you being one is quality.

I don't get any of it the internet here in nz it is of the most appalling international standard any way, we pay through the nose for it, its meant to be kinda fast{well so im lead to believe} but vietnams dial up is apparently faster than our cable and its massively cheaper although the general populace must be controlled in every aspect of their lives and commoners like me are subsequently here to rip off every hot shot who already made millions off the capitalization of every one you know! Funny old world aint it?

Its about time all the freeloaders and hackers out there got busted. I don't download music or movies because the quality sucks. Its about time all the cheapskate warez hackz out there got unplugged. They've ripped off legit creators for far too long.

I want to know what the hell happened to a little something i like to call privacy, in theory what we do on the internet shouldn't be able to be tracked; there is so many articles going around about peoples privacy being breached IE Google's recording your internet movements (so to speak). Personally I feel is wrong, however that does not mean to say I feel that we should ignore copyright infringement; just that they need to find a better way going about it.

Many years ago TVNZ showed one season of a TV show that I loved. When the show stopped, I assumed it had been cancelled. About 5 years later I found out that there were in fact 4 seasons of this show. I made enquiries, TVNZ had no intention of showing the remaining 3 seasons, I couldn't hire the show on DVD anywhere, in fact I couldn't even buy the DVD in New Zealand because it had not been "officially" released. My only option was to buy out of zone DVD's on Amazon, and illegally import them into New Zealand, then play them on an technically illegal multi-zone DVD player. Then I found out about torrents, and I haven't looked back since.

Most TV series shown in NZ are 2-5 years old, and many movies are 6 months - 1 year old when released in NZ, and thats if the distribution companies involved even choose to release here. (Being a small market, they often don't bother.)

It's completely unreasonable to ban something when there is no legal alternative.

when will the law come into effect???????

This bill is a waste of time. I'm sure there are several ways to download things illegally without being detected.