On 29 Apr 2009, at 01:28, Karl Auerbach wrote:
As long as it takes. Otherwise we will have a system in which a mere accusation is sufficient.
We recently saw in New Zealand that the copyright people tried to push through a system in which people could have rights taken away - like being denied access to the internet - by the mere accusation that they were violating copyrights.
Not just NZ! See: http://blog.blacknight.com/irma-threatens-irish-isps.html
And have we not learned enough of how things can get bad through "expedited" processes such as in the DMCA?
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