http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=10726286

"Internet at public libraries could be on the chopping block as a result of new anti-piracy laws, says the library association. "

Absolute load of poppycock! The library internet blocks all p2p traffic and have done since the beginning, so they're not in the slightest risk unless we see a more aggressive anti-downloading law such as the USA's new "PROTECT-IP act"

http://www.fairfieldcommunity.org.nz/ho ... ter-access is an entirely different story. This is a community initiative to provide computers and the internet on a zero budget, by using free software. There's a filter in place to prevent access to porn but p2p software (specifically bit torrrent) is intentionally not filtered because we WANT people to be able to download Free and Open Source software, and much of that is distributed via p2p in order to keep hosting costs manageable.

Poppycock or not it's absolute gold for PPNZ

"Library internet access only the start"

"Copyright law limits internet access"

The fact is that anyone offering free or paid public access runs the risk of being fined. For many, the simple option will be to remove the service.

I'm not really sure how great the risk is. I will retract my earlier comment because it's occurred to me since then that even if library internet is not currently at risk because they have slow and heavily filtered internet... the new copyright act is certainly going to ensure that libraries don't ever get faster and less restricted internet access because doing that would almost certainly increase the risk to them.

I'm not sure you guys are seeing the big picture here. We are a political party. Our weapons are perception, not reality.

Rule one - Spread FUD

Fact. Anyone providing public internet services will have to review their exposure to the new laws. Whether it will or won't result in a change to the status quo is irrelevant. IT MAKES GOOD COPY. Newspapers will run this story.

Sorry to be blunt here people but are we a political party or a discussion group?

There's a difference between developing policy, and selling it. This is a discussion group - "Party Policy Development". The selling of policy is discussed mainly on the Wiki/discussion list/PiratePad.