New Zealand pulls back from guilt-by-accusation piracy law

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    2 March 2009

    The New Zealand government has delayed by a month a controversial plan that critics say will allow internet users to be cut off just because they have been accused of copyright infringement.

    Protesters created an internet 'black out' earlier this week to demonstrate against the proposed law. They replaced their websites with a black-out page directing users to an information page about the law.

    Amendments planned for New Zealand's Copyright Act by a Labour Party government that has since been replaced included the insertion of controversial sections 92A and 92C.