Monday, February 16, 2009

You'll have noticed our logo has gone dark

It's not a mistake. It's about a mistake. New Zealand has just introduced an absurdly overwrought piece of legislation which establish "guilt upon accusation" for those accused of copyright theft - and enshrines in law the priciple that copyright "thieves" can be thrown off the internet by their ISPs.

It's a rotten piece of law, and in protest, you're being invited to join an internet black-out between now and the 23rd; if you have an internet presence, you might want to get involved, too.


1 comment:

Olive said...

Funnily enough, the 'what to do' page makes no mention of anything practical you can do to keep the snooping bastards out of your bits. Here's a good place to start...

http://www.torproject.org/

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