Monday, February 23, 2009

The blackout protest appears to have worked!

The news that the government will suspend S92(a) of the new Copyright Act until at least March 29th tweeted through on Twitter a few minutes ago:

@MsBehaviour  said: 
"#Blackout News!!! NZ Govt announce a delay in #S92 implementation until 29th March. If no agreement, will suspend. #blackout FTW!! RT!
...and ricocheted around several tweeter-ers....including Juha Saarinen, who drove the protest.....with Bernard Hickey observing:
"and we read all about it first on Twitter. Sensational!
The details are still unknown to me, but here's hoping they drop it completely. That part isn't clear yet.

UPDATE: More details here.

1 comment:

  1. I hope this will be the start of a substantial rethink on the copyright legislation. :)

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