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New Zealand Internet Law to Disconnect Users File Sharing

posted January 30, 2009 - 2:00pm
New Zealand Internet Law to Disconnect Users File Sharing

Despite calls from the public, pressure groups and ISPs, the New Zealand government has refused to withdraw the planned Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act. The controversial act provides ‘Guilt Upon Accusation’, meaning that those simply accused of file-sharing are disconnected from the Internet.

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NZ hits P2P file-sharing Hard!!

Rycharde Manne - Sat, 2009-31-1 10:27 am
Lots of people up in arms over this... at least in NZ. But is this the shape of things to come? Anybody accused of copying copyrighted content will be unplugged! Join Xomba Here

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