It is not only that this law denies the accused any due process, it is that it stipulates a penalty that no court would impose in adjudicating a copyright complaint even if infringement were proven.
— Russell Brown with a backgrounder on section 92(A) of New Zealand’s soon-to-be-enacted new copyright legislation that will require internet service providers to summarily disconnect the accounts of users even accused of repeated copyright infringement. Twitter users are blacking out their avatars on social networking sites to protest the law, which they believe contravenes the Bill of Rights.
