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This Saturday, February 28th, Section 92A of the Copyright Act is due to come into force. This website has voluntarily been taken down in protest against this law, which will be used to disconnect New Zealanders from the internet based on accusations of copyright infringement, without a trial and without evidence held up to court scrutiny. May we be very clear: we do not support or condone copyright infringement or illegal downloads. But this blatant disregard towards the basic human right to a fair trial is completely unjust and unworkable and it has the potential to punish New Zealand businesses and individuals where in fact no laws have been broken. Similar laws have been rejected in the EU as being against

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  1. OECD rank 22 kiwi (2,528) Says:

    LAME

  2. greenfly (1,059) Says:

    And have you done it? Have you forced this ignorant government to ditch this? WHY have you needed to resort to this? What’s WRONG with this NActional government, that has them behaving like this? Eh, Mr Farrar???

    [DPF: Unlike yourself, I am not a sycophant to my own party. It is no surprise that I sometimes disagree with my own party. Even Keith Holyoake once said he only agreed with 80% of what his Govt said. Dissent is not a bad thing - it is the sign of a healthy debate. So have you ever ever criticised the Green Party or the Green leadership?]

  3. philu (10,919) Says:

    yeah..a total pox on both labour and national ..(and any other party who voted for this..

    ..i mean really..!

    ..how has it fucken come to this..?

    ‘power to the people!’

    phil(whoar.co.nz)

  4. bharmer (614) Says:

    It did improve my productivity this morning :-)

  5. greenfly (1,059) Says:

    Mr Farrar – I didn’t criticise you at all, I simply asked, ‘what’s wrong with National’ for their behaviour over this issue. I hoped you’d detail what it was that’s causing them to act this way. You must know.
    As to criticising the Greens – OF COURSE NOT – I’m a one eyed, sycophantic, unreasonable, mong bean munching, unwashed, socialist, pinko, luddite! What do you expect? :-)

  6. bkd09 (20) Says:

    Where can I go to find out what/(if anything) Cabinet did about all this earlier today?

  7. Peter (653) Says:

    >>What do you expect?

    Not much.

    >>what’s wrong with National’ for their behaviour

    I suspect that, much like the Greens, they sometimes have problems seeing the wood for the trees.

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