Government to amend Section 92A
Further to our post on the requirement for ISPs to have a termination policy for repeat copyright infringers, the Government anounced on 23 March that Section 92 of the Copyright Act 1994, that imposed that requirement, will not come into force as proposed, but would be reviewed.
The announcement is here.
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:25 am
A main issue with this law was that it wasn’t about “repeat copyright infringers” per se, but that it was about alleged copyright infringers. Someone could be cut off without any due process based on unproven allegations.
See CreativeFreedom.org.nz and our blackout protest CreativeFreedom.org.nz/blackout.html
Also this Wall Street Journal article sums it up pretty well
http://tinyurl.com/wsjs92a “How could a democratic government consider cutting off Internet access for people who haven’t been convicted of a copyright violation? Danny O’Brien, the international outreach coordinator at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says that New Zealand changed its copyright law to be in accordance with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act in the U.S., but then chose to interpret the language differently than the U.S.”