Canadia Beats

It took me a while to changing things back to normal, but I guess normal is back-dated and slow to respond around here anyway.

The NZ Government temporarily held back Section 92a’s enforcement at the end of February, giving ISPs and rightsholders until March 29 to come up with a workable plan. Fingers crossed they can’t and the law gets tossed. Keep yelling, please. Meanwhile, business as usual¹.

¹ business as usual, (colloquialism): state in which stated intentions have gone unfinished (eg FAWM), gear used to peform daily tasks is broken or missing (um, I dropped my Mbox. And it broke), and in which weak excuses are accepted as valid reasons for doing very little (I’m sick, so I need to look at all those things. Over there. And not do whatever you’re talking about).

Canadia Beats is blacked out in protest against Section 92a of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act here in New Zealand. This section, dubbed ‘guilt up accusation’ by those of us who are against it, calls for ISPs to disconnect customers accused multiple times of copyright infiringement. Accused, mind. The act doesn’t call for any proof.

Find out about Section 92a at http://creativefreedom.org.nz/s92.html

Find out about the blackout at http://creativefreedom.org.nz/blackout.html

Black out your Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc accounts. Follow the #blackout on Twitter. I blacked this page out using this script from @stevegoodwin.