2009/2/20 Francis Davey <[email protected]>: > 2009/2/20 Ed Kelly <[email protected]> >> Not 100% sure if this is coincidence however some of you may know New >> Zealand has some very draconian legislation coming into effect on 28 >> Feb namely Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act nicknamed Guilt >> Upon Accusation law. > > I've commented elsewhere on this. I don't think the campaign against the > amendments is doing itself any favours by describing the law in those terms. > I have some sympathy as a political campaigner myself, but I know its > important not to overstate a case otherwise one looks stupid. >
In a radio interview the (former) Minister in charge of the bill, Judith Tizard, said: "yes it is easier for ISPs, Internet Service Providers, to cut off anyone who might be breaking the law, um, but you know, you can go to a library and use the Internet, and you can go to another ISP." The select committee took section 92A out of the bill after reviewing 125 submissions from the public and industry. But Labour and National caved into lobbyists and put the clause back in at the committee of the whole house stage. From NZ Hansard, an opposition MP said: "The Minister [Judith Tizard] knows, and I certainly know, that we have all had approaches from various commercial entities, as a result of which the Minister has come up with a number of amendments. We will support those. The first makes some changes to new section 92A, and I need not go into that in any great detail. We support what is being done there. Essentially, it is putting back into place what had been there before the bill went to the select committee." More details: http://blog.theyworkforyou.co.nz/post/59243864/section-92a-cut-off-anyone-who-might-be-breaking TheyWorkForYou.co.nz is participating in the blackout protest: http://theyworkforyou.co.nz/ We suspect that this legislation was partly passed to make NZ complicit, er, I mean compliant, with the yet to be revealed terms of the ACTA agreement. Rob _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
