New Zealand's terrible copyright law suspended, may be dead

by mtippett | February 23, 2009 at 03:18 pm
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Street demonstrations, netwide campaigns, unfavorable press attention and sustained lobbying have moved the New Zealand government to temporarily suspend its new copyright law, which would have required ISPs to terminate their customers' net access on the basis of three unsubstantiated accusations of infringement.
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Yuliya Talmazan

Wow, so "the blackout" wasn't for nothing. I am glad they came through.

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