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New Zealand Reconsiders Three-Strikes Rule on Internet Use

in News on March 26, 2009 at 10:25 am PT

New Zealand agreed this week to reconsider a controversial law that cut off Internet access to people accused of copyright violations. The country’s parliament passed Section 92a of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act in 2008, also known as the “three-strikes” rule, which would have come into play in February 2009. If an Internet user was even accused of file-sharing or otherwise violating copyright laws, his or her Internet-service provider would cut off service.