Topic: A Letter To Everyone From Anonymous

To all New Zealanders,

As of April 14, 2011, a crime has been committed against you; the Copyright Amendment Bill, has enabled law enforcement to cut off the Internet access of any New Zealander accused of piracy and fine you up to $15,000, without solid evidence.

In addition, your government appears to feel that it is acceptable to control users' Internet activity. With the help of larger corporations, the government will start logging IP addresses to initiate lawsuits. Any download, including those necessary to view media streams via Youtube or other social media sites, can be viewed as infringement of copyright laws - whether or not the download is legal - under the presumption of file transferring or sharing.

This law directly contradicts the ideals that Anonymous holds true, such as Internet freedom for all.

The 'accused' are additionally having their basic human rights violated by being presumed guilty until proven innocent. Furthermore, by suspending an account holder, rather than the access of those who are downloading, the account holder is deemed to be guilty of an offence they have not necessarily been proven to have committed.

Such actions are not those of a democracy but rather the characteristics of a lobbyist totalitarian state. Many of you have already begun to protest in order to shed light on this bill, which was hastily passed under the guise of a national emergency, with little public notice. You must join your fellow New Zealanders and show that you will stand against such outrageous behaviour, and deter other nations' governments from following. New Zealand has long been seen as a world leader when it comes to equality and human rights; let's not have this perception change now. Continue your protests with the knowledge that you are not alone - Anonymous and Internet users everywhere will stand in support of this movement.

Your civil liberties and privacy are under attack. Do not let those that you have voted into office silence you.

An info poster can be found here: http://goo.gl/kKj1F

webIRC: Operation Payback IRC

Additional news sources are here:
Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill 119-2 (2010), Government Bill – New Zealand Legislation
NZGamer.com - Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill
Online protests over controversial copyright law | POLITICS News

Protests:
General - http://www.facebook.com/NZBlackout
Auckland - https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=205011036200335
Christchurch - https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=211282055556203
Dunedin - https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=215353565144593
Wellington - https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149169298483262

Hi there,

Thanks for this post, it was moderated automatically because of the links. Given the importance, and the fact it's not spam ( ), I've approved it.

Anonymous, your methods are deplorable in the fact they betray what the internet stands for, no one here but the hacker can ever love the hacker.

You are trying to get what you want through force, but the ideologies have changed. War is not good, and Peace is preferred so as not to encourage evil even if it will inevitably happen.

If one Government falls to you (which is unlikely) others will rise.

After all, if your argument had something to stand on more would respond and the revolution would have happened by now. You are not the first guys who have completely forgotten good and evil in favor of Us vs Them

Your full of a specious words, and the world may be ignorant but not so unreasonable as to become the first world ruled by a majority of idiots.

Face it, Anonymous, if you really want to help do something that doesn't require terrorism

There's a difference between using the internet to organize peaceful protests and using it to hide your evil.

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell

Anonymous, your methods are deplorable in the fact they betray what the internet stands for, no one here but the hacker can ever love the hacker.

You are trying to get what you want through force, but the ideologies have changed. War is not good, and Peace is preferred so as not to encourage evil even if it will inevitably happen.

If one Government falls to you (which is unlikely) others will rise.

After all, if your argument had something to stand on more would respond and the revolution would have happened by now. You are not the first guys who have completely forgotten good and evil in favor of Us vs Them

Your full of a specious words, and the world may be ignorant but not so unreasonable as to become the first world ruled by a majority of idiots.

Face it, Anonymous, if you really want to help do something that doesn't require terrorism

There's a difference between using the internet to organize peaceful protests and using it to hide your evil.

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

One of the reason why I love this forum is that they limit the entry of spammers.