His nickname would tend to indicate he's Canadian.

For what it's worth though, the Copyright Tribunal actually exists for a completely different statutory purpose (defining mechanical royalty rates, granting authorisation to copy without rights holder consent, etc) and was "re-purposed" for this task.

And we call everything that isn't a Court a Tribunal. We have a Disputes Tribunal as well.

This is not true. Any copyright owner (or agent of one) has the right to send a notice, but it'll cost you $25 a pop to do so, plus $200 to bring them to the tribunal if they get hit three times.

The rights owner is also not allowed to know who the customer is unless a court orders it (not the tribunal, an actual court).

Well, considering being caught speeding three times in NZ would result in anywhere from $90 to $1890 (depending on how fast you go over the limit - it's a sliding scale from $30 for less than 10km/h over the limit to $630 for 50km/h over the limit) and if all three times were 20km/h or more over the limit would result in a 12 month license suspension, the fines are more severe for speeding.

Actually, you can't appeal tribunal decisions. It's final. You also can be represented by at best a solicitor, and that's only if a hearing is called (usually, our copyright tribunal decides based on paper submissions, no real-time argument. To top it off, the law instructs the tribunal to consider an accusation of infringement as evidence that infringement occurred. The burden is on you to prove that it didn't (and how do you prove a negative again?)

No, she shared the same song twice. The reason it looks like double is because we get ripped off on iTunes.

WTO sanctions are toothless. New Zealand has had several judgements against Australia for it's refusal to allow New Zealand apples into the country (Australia always claimed there was a risk of Fireblight, something not seen in NZ since ever). In all cases, Australia simply ignored the ruling. There was never any penalties applied.

Man, try using Chip and PIN. Easily up to 30 seconds to approve or decline a transaction!

If the merchant is charging 3% on a card present transaction, they clearly need to fire whoever signed that contract with the bank. I pay 2% on card not present - although I have no idea what I pay for Amex.

Indeed. Only works in Chrome or IE10. Not exactly "standard" though.

Or, more likely, it's just flakey as fuck. What would you expect from Australians?

The sad part, is that the mansion was constructed with the profits from a fucking Christmas Hamper company.

Think about that next time someone offers you Christmas club stamps.

No they couldn't. Javascript has no access to the file system, so could not encrypt a file.

Actually, Chatroulette banned nudity. As a result, noone uses it.

Pushing the button on it via a webcam could be problematic.

No, I don't know where you got any of that info from - it's all completely wrong. He gets an allowance returned by the New Zealand government each month to cover his living costs, and the extradition hearings continue - very, very, slowly. Which is how quickly our court system normally proceeds.