[ga] A brief respite? New Zealand Halts Internet Copyright Law Changes

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Perhaps a brief respite or justice finnaly served?  Wait until we get
a full glimpse of ACTA! Lets all give a hardy thank you to Google
here as well for their efforts! See:
 http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/03/23/140241

The New Zealand Prime Minister announced his Government  
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/section-92a-be-scrapped-89121
will throw out the controversial Section 92A of the Copyright Amendment
(New Technologies) Act and start again.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/06/0351202&tid=95 The
proposed law changes contained 'guilty upon accusation, without appeal'
clauses and heavy compliance costs to ISPs and businesses. The changes
were hours away from being signed but a series of
http://www.creativefreedom.org.nz/ online protests,
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/AF4726DECC787629CC2575620004AAA0?Opendocument&HighLight=2,S92A
a petition on Government grounds, as well as
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/23FC997D9894A729CC257576000D489B?Opendocument&HighLight=2,S92A
public rebuttal by a large ISP and
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/18/2223232&tid=217
by Google contributed to the Government changing course and respecting
the wishes of the IT industry.

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