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Four men made a brief appearance in an Auckland court today after police raided 10 addresses in Auckland linked to a US investigation into international copyright infringement and money laundering.

New Zealanders wanting to show their online loyalty will get the chance next year when the Dot Kiwi (.kiwi) domain name is expected to become available.

Obviously, the technology fight is one that differs with the ages.

Wellington will be the first New Zealand city to provide a free wireless internet service across most of its central city.

Television and the internet are merging with such whiplash speed that for a while, viewers will have trouble keeping track of all the little technological boxes on top of their sets, much less the countless thousands of shows they can watch, entertainment executives told a television producers' convention last week.

Video, music and software pirates no longer face the prospect of having their internet cut off, unless the Commerce Minister gives the green light.

Now that we're all connected, what we really need is some disconnectedness, writes William Powers.

Good morning.

Let me just cut and paste something from the internet ... hang on ... here we go: "Virtual Revolution charts two decades of profound change since the invention of the World Wide Web, weighing up the huge benefits and the unforeseen downsides."

That was easy.