[LINK] NZ sees the light!

[Tom Koltai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Jan Whitaker
> Sent: Tuesday, 24 March 2009 10:28 PM
> To: link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: [LINK] NZ sees the light!
> 
> 
> 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


Unfortunatly our safe harbour legislation sneakeded in whilst I was
sunning myself on friendly Nauru..... so I wasn't able to stick up my
hand.......
And even if I was here - I might not have noticed the stealth submarine
attack..... On the not so safe harbour.

http://au.findlaw.com/articles/default.asp?task=read&id=13016&site=GN




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