This Website Was Blacked Out
If you tried to visit this site earlier today, you would have found it blacked out with the message below. Delighted to return it before the day is out, due to success of the blackout campaign for raising awareness. Kudos to Bronwyn Holloway-Smith and the Creative Freedom Foundation for their swift and effective blackout campaign and public demonstration at Parliament.
I’m glad to see the government’s chosen to delay Section 92A of the Copyright Act until March 27 and suspend it entirely if no agreement can be reached. It needs to be repealed. Here are reports from Computerworld, InternetNZ and The NZ Herald.
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 “a fair balance between various fundamental rights“, rejected in the UK due to “impracticalities“, and rejected in Germany as being ‘Unfit for Germany, Unfit For Europe‘.
We don’t care who voted for the law in the first place. We just want it stopped. We call on the Minister responsible, National’s Simon Power, to do the right thing and repeal Section 92A immediately. Visit CreativeFreedom.org.nz to learn more
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