“New Zealand Goes All Black Against Three Strikes”
February 19th, 2009
Just caught this via the EFF Twitter page.
Whether you’re following a New Zealander on Twitter, or have friended a Kiwi on Facebook, you will not have missed Net users from that country protesting Section 92A in NZ’s new Copyright Act. Thousands are turning their sites and their icons black to mourn the coming enforcement of the provision, which passed last year over the protests of ISPs and technology experts and activists.
The language of New Zealand’s new copyright law is flawed for the country’s Net users; but how it is being interpreted is also bad news for other countries, whose lawmakers might be influenced by the extreme position NZ’s politicians and ISPs have wandered into.
