Govt refuses to budge on internet law - Technology. The Government says it will not alter its internet copyright legislation, despite UN criticism that such laws are an attack on human rights. In a report issued late last week, UN special rapporteur Frank La Rue said access to the internet had become a human right and was an important way for people to "exercise their right to freedom of opinion and expression". Mr La Rue said he was alarmed that some countries were enacting laws which would deny users access to the internet as a penalty for repeated illegal downloads of copyrighted material, such as films and music. In April the Government passed such an anti-piracy law with the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act which included a provision to suspend internet accounts for up to six months after three offences. While several submissions on the law argued internet access was now a right, Commerce Minister Simon Power yesterday said he hadn't given that a great deal of thought.
The Government had no intention of altering it. Index page for NetHui 2011. SOPA & PIPA: threats to NZ's national interests. Kiwis get all upset at the slightest suggestion of a foreign government trying to influence our domestic law-making. The US government and others do so to further their national interests. We now have the mirror opposite situation. UPDATE: Congress shelves SOPA - but InternetNZ warns threats remain I’d like to see the NZ government work within accepted diplomatic boundaries to at least express concerns at two US laws in the making- SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act before the House of Representatives) and PIPA or the PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act before the Senate).
Not that expressing our concerns are going to make much of a difference. With New Zealand being the least corrupt country in the world, we have the moral right to do so. SOPA and PROTECT IP These Acts are broadly similar, aimed at “rogue” non-US websites providing material violating copyright and counterfeit goods.
Internet in Developing Countries. By Claudio Pinhanez Since the U.S. government announced the plans for the National Informational Infrastructure [1], a world-wide race for the future economic hegemony seems to have been started. While the governments of some other developed nations have already launched similar plans (although fundamentally different in terms of actual government support), the governments of developing countries are facing the issue in a quite different perspective. My objective in this work is to analyze some of the aspects of the "informational superhighway" from the perspective of countries struggling to evolve economically.
The basic question is to determine whether an "information super-highway" should be a governmental priority in developing countries . The future use of Internet in the developed countries is certainly still undetermined (I am using the term "Internet" in this paper to define the broad range of services provided by an advanced, nationwide informational infrastructure [2]). 1. 2.
Rebecca MacKinnon: Let's take back the Internet! A Bill of Rights in Cyberspace. Internet Access Is Not a Human Right. Global Legal Monitor: Finland: Legal Right to Broadband for All Citizens | Global Legal Monitor | Law Library of Congress. Www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/conseil-constitutionnel/root/bank_mm/anglais/2009_580dc.pdf. United Nations Report on internet access.