New Zealand ISPs against anti-P2P law
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Like ISPs around the world, providers in New Zealand are strongly resisting government efforts to force them to act as entertainment industry copyright cops, supported not by the labels, but by the ISPs themselves and local taxpayers.
In the US, Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA used the Wall Street Journal to give the entirely false impression that ISPs are almost lining up to take action against customers accused of being file sharers.
However, of the major providers, only Cox, in the throes of introducing a traffic throttling scheme, is on record as saying it’s willing to work for the RIAA.
New Zealand, meanwhile, has the honour of being the first country in the world to agree to voluntarily represent the corporate movie and music industries against its own citizens.
Internet NZ executive director Keith Davidson said ISPs would play the role of “judge, jury and executioner”, and the law would negate the assumption that users were innocent until proven guilty, says stuff.co.nz, stating, “Telecom, Vodafone and TelstraClear have spoken out against the law, joining calls by Internet NZ for the Government to repeal section 92A of the Copyright Act, due to come in on February 28.”
Are the ISP protests real, or merely a ploy to enable them to say to their customers, “Sorry, folks. We did our best but …”
Stay tuned.
entirely false impression – RIAA claims of ISP support: equine excreta, January 6, 2009
traffic throttling scheme – Cox touts traffic throttling scheme, January 28, 2008
against its own citizens – New Zealand: official corporate copyright cop, January 19, 2009
stuff.co.nz – Govt rejects calls to alter internet law, January 28, 2009
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January 28th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Custromers!
January 28th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
^custromers…? I don’t get it.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Typo. I corrected it.
Coneonecomcast made a point of mentioning it becase I so rearly make speeeling errors.
Cheers!
January 29th, 2009 at 12:11 am
It’s shocking how far governments around the world are prepared to go to protect so few rich. Wake up corrupt politicians! The ordinary people keep the country ticking over, not the billionaires who can be counted on one hand; then again, how would they afford to fund their lavish lifestyles without bribes **cough** donations.
January 29th, 2009 at 9:47 am
jon your shocking lol
Coneon?
Its been repeated a few times on here I dont think these NZ pollies even know what BitTorrent is you dont listen to someone is pushing you into doing something you know nothing about or any facts