The government is having another crack at amending the copyright act and the infamous section 92a in particular. The gist of the revamp is here. David Farrar over at Kiwiblog thinks the changes are “not bad”. I beg to differ. While the changes are certainly better than the original section 92a where people could have [...]
No, not the Somali pirates this time, but the owners of Pirate Bay, the biggest file-sharing site on the net (or, perhaps, just the best promoted). The owners and administrators of the bittorrent storage site were sentenced to a year in jail and a $6.4 million dollar fine – a sentence clearly designed to shut [...]
Section 92a of the update Copyright Act says the following: 92A Internet service provider must have policy for terminating accounts of repeat infringers (1) An Internet service provider must adopt and reasonably implement a policy that provides for termination, in appropriate circumstances, of the account with that Internet service provider of a repeat infringer. (2) In [...]
