Blog: Music Under Fire

New law ends music blogging in New Zealand

Jan 27, 2009, 3:54pm

We received an email from one of our colleagues yesterday notifying us of a law that is scheduled to go into effect in New Zealand on February 28 that will essentially disconnect people who are 'suspected' of downloading illegal material. This, of course, includes blogs. This new section to the Copyright Amendment Act 2008 aims to prevent repeat offenders of illegal sharing/downloading of " music, videos and other intellectual knowledge on the internet. " More importantly, proper and well defined statutes haven't been labeled, rather someone suspected of promoting illegally downloadable items can have their ISP [...]

Artist: David Byrne and Brian Eno
Title: Strange Overtones
File Name: David Byrne and Brian Eno - Strange Overtones.mp3
Bitrate: 320 kbps

Artist: Shugo Tokumaru
Title: Parachute
File Name: Shugo Tokumaru - Parachute.mp3
Bitrate: 96 kbps

Artists: David Byrne and Brian Eno, Shugo Tokumaru

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