New Zealand Copyright (New Technologies and Performers' Rights) Amendment Bill Opponents
To the Honorable MP Judith Tizard.We, the undesigned New Zealand citizens, are shocked to read that you have sponsored an amendment to the Copyright Act that, in some ways, mirrors the United States D... continue reading »
"don't make this pass!!!"
"new zealanders will not accept laws being dictated to them by entertainment industry lap dogs"
"This hasn't worked in America and won't work for NZ."
"I would rather have US nukes in the country than US law. Keep NZ DMCA-free!"
"This is undermining the economic structure of the legal liability that is going to constitute this Bill hence I Veto the siging of this Bill."
"We are not America so we need not follow there corperate bully tatics.."
""We wish to reduce art to its most basic expression which is love.""
"DRM is as secure as gluing a key to a padlock. It serves only as a convenient vector to sue people and to make things more difficult for normal users, but no more difficult for those who know how to remove the key and give copies of it to their friends. I"
"DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.' - There is no sane or technical reason for anything like the DMCA."
"I emigrated to New Zealand from America in hopes that the intelligent populace here could avoid precisely this sort of travesty. I wish NZ would recognise and avoid America's mistakes rather than appearing so eager to repeat them."
