[LINK] NZ sees the light!

[Jan Whitaker]

phobonetik writes "The New Zealand Prime Minister announced his 
Government will throw out the controversial Section 92A of the 
Copyright Amendment (New Technologies) Act and start again. The 
proposed law changes contained 'guilty upon accusation, without 
appeal' clauses and heavy compliance costs to ISPs and businesses. 
The changes were hours away from being signed but a series of online 
protests, a petition on Government grounds, as well as public 
rebuttal by a large ISP and by Google contributed to the Government 
changing course and respecting the wishes of the IT industry."
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/23/140241&from=rss

Now, maybe someone here will pay attention as well. Or maybe iiNet 
will just relocate to NZ?

Jan


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