Thursday 1:54pm (29th January 2009)

NZ Herald asks "UK backs down on three strikes - will sanity prevail here?"..
Citing the UK's recent statements against Guilt Upon Accusation laws due to "impracticalities and complexities" this NZ Herald article asks why National's Steven Joyce thinks this law is workable?: "The UK government's back-down also calls the move by the National government further into question. If the government and ISP's of one of the world's strongest economies were struggling to enforce similar laws to the proposed Section 92, it is likely that smaller New Zealand ISPs will be even more hard pressed to make the proposed laws workable." This certainly makes you wonder what gives National the confidence to allow this law to come into power despite that experts are calling it unworkable and thousands of artists say they don't want this done in their name. The CFF urge National's Steven Joyce to review the former-Labour MP Judith Tizard's law and to repeal it before February 28th. Information on how to have your say follows...