Section 92A taken back to the drawing board

Great news, Section 92A has been removed, and work will be done to re-write it and create something more workable.

At the end of February, under a growing publuic outcry and a blackout protest by the New Zealand Internet community, Prime Minister John Key announced that the controversial copyright law would go on hold until March 27, pending further work by the Telecommunications Carriers Forum on creating a workable code of practice for implementing the legislation.

Those talks have since broken down, so Section 92A has been thrown out altogether so it can be reworked and inherent flaws in the legislation corrected.

Had Section 92A been brought into force, it would've made it ISPs responsibility to notify customers of infringement accusations against them, and in some instances to cut off their Internet connections if infringement continued.

We can all breathe a collective sigh of relief for the time being, as we were definitely not happy with Section 92A. However, that said, Orcon still recognises the rights of Copyright Holders, and believes that there must be some kind of solution to the issue of copyright infringement.

For more details, check out a National Business Review articlle, or the NZ Herald website here.