The Motueka Choir are 'caught' beneath a large fishing net that Greenpeace hung over the Orange Roughy Management Company headquarters in Nelson today. Greenpeace had been conducting a peaceful protest about the destruction wrecked on deep sea life by bottom trawl nets which crush ancient coral forests while catching orange roughy. (C) GREENPEACE / Peter Kemp

Angry fishing workers tear down fishing nets during a Greenpeace protest at the Orange Roughy Management Company headquarters in Nelson today. Greenpeace had been conducting a peaceful protest about the destruction wrecked on deep sea life by bottom trawl nets which crush ancient coral forests while catching orange roughy. (C) GREENPEACE / Peter Kemp

Angry fishing workers tear down fishing nets during a Greenpeace protest at the Orange Roughy Management Company headquarters in Nelson today. Greenpeace had been conducting a peaceful protest about the destruction wrecked on deep sea life by bottom trawl nets which crush ancient coral forests while catching orange roughy. (C) GREENPEACE / Peter Kemp

Fishing industry workers assault Greenpeace protesters at the Orange Roughy Management Company in Nelson today. Greenpeace had been conducting a peaceful protest about the destruction wrecked on deep sea life by bottom trawl nets which crush ancient coral forests while catching orange roughy. (C) GREENPEACE / Peter Kemp

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>