Kiwis reject wild west copyright cut-offs
Lobbyists gunned down
Monday, 23 March 2009, 10:54
NEW ZEALAND HAS REJECTED a controversial law which could have seen suspected illegal file sharers disconnected from the Internet without trial or evidence.
Industry lobbyists have been pushing for a three-strikes-and-you're-out rule similar to models proposed by France and other countries, but the law, which was due to hit the statute books late last month, has been posptponed following an outcry from Internet users.
Prime Minister John Key has asked his minister of commerce to come up with a workable code of conduct in collaboration with ISPs and copyright owners which will fix "fundamental flaws" in the current legislation. µ
L'Inq
AFP via Yahooo
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Seems that our french minister of culture will continue to push this on regardless of worldwide failure of this kond of law.
We call this "French cultural exception".
good artical ruined by the shit design of this website hover popups are a crap idea and how many adverts can you get on one page for god sake.This site used to be great now its just an advertising whore.
Ads? Which ads? Popups? Oh, you have an insecure flash player, but neither a filtering proxy, nor an ad blocker. Try this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
Congratulations New Zealanders!
Your protests forced parliament to acknowledge your rights. This time. I don't know that your battle is truly over.
See my take on this at:
Draconian Internet Copyright Law Dead, Or Is It?
http://amccright.blogspot.com/2009/03/draconian-internet-copyright-law-dead.html
Write your MPs and keep them on their toes.
http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/HvYrSay/Contact/2/9/d/00PlibHvYrSayContact1-Contact-an-MP.htm