OTTAWA and WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada, Sept. 29 /CNW-AsiaNet/ --

Revelations of the piracy of New Zealand film Boy illustrates the growing threat of online copyright theft to the New Zealand film industry.

The people of Niue are about to get a four-fold increase in internet bandwidth, plus extra capacity from a back-up satellite to protect the island's internet connections if services from the existing satellite fail or are disrupted.

AVG (AU/NZ), the distributor for Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific of the world's most popular free anti-virus software, today announced that LimeWire LLC has licensed the AVG Anti-Virus SDK engine from AVG Technologies.

AVG (AU/NZ) Pty Ltd, which distributes the AVG range of Anti-Virus and Internet Security products, has created a Back-To-School Computer Use Checklist For Parents (www.avg.com.au/resources/security-tips/).

InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) has welcomed today's announcement by Hon Simon Power of proposed improvements to section 92A of the Copyright Act 1994.

The Government favours a three-notice procedure to deal with illegal copying of material over computer networks, Commerce Minister Simon Power said today.