geekzone.co.nz — New laws that arrive in New Zealand on 28th February mean anyone *ACCUSSED* three times of copyright infringement gets their internet connection disconnected. No court+jury required.In protest of this insane and draconian law, New Zealanders are doing a blackout protest - changing avatars to black, and websites to black.Join us
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irishsmurfFeb 16, 2009
United we must stand or seperate we will fall.
busmullaFeb 16, 2009
Should be cool now... the site admin has tweaked the swervers so the response time should be fine now.
chambler81Feb 16, 2009
So if they disconnect upon accusation and making false accusations under the law is not a punishable offense isn't the way to show that this law is wrong blatantly obvious? Just for anyone who doesn't deal in the blatantly obvious, or has for people having an even more warped mind than me.... Every parliamentarian who voted in favor should have to say 'bye bye' to their internet connection within weeks of the new law coming into effect. Lets see how well they do without their daily dose of....
cre8dFeb 16, 2009
Can someone explain why this hasn't made it to the front page?
jackyanFeb 21, 2009
The anti-internet mainstream old media would love to see the ’net die. It’s why they keep going on about voyeurs watching internet suicides and never talk about the suicides that netizens stop; or why there are so many nonces on the ’net when in fact the internet has been exposing crims.
badcop666Feb 21, 2009
I suspect this has been tacked onto free trade discussions, as a sweetener for negotiations. "Things will go much better for you if you also..."- backed up by media industry lobbying in the US and elsewhere. If so, it clearly indicates the attitudes of those concerned - happy to sell our freedoms down the river at whatever cost, to please their powerful masters.It is clear that this completely fails to address revenue problems for the media industries - there is no easy relationship between that copy downloaded for free and the dollar not spent in the shop - and thus far the media industry has failed to show what it is.Hence, the only immediate result of these law changes will be to open the floodgates for further draconian attacks on freedom in general.For more than 30 years, the US, IMF and Worldbank have driven the economies of other nations through trade negotiation and debt leverage.New Zealanders - are you citizens of a democracy? if so, then get up and fight for those rights!
whoisjohnlaiMar 4, 2009
Man, the more i hear about it, the more baffle i get...why can't we as new zealand, look after fmaily and people in need of help then just crack down on copyright laws, this should be on the bottom of the priority listdon't you reckon?<a class="user" href="http://whoisjohnlai.com/blog/?p=53">http://whoisjohnlai.com/blog/?p=53</a>