[pp.int.general] Dutch Minister thinks about Banning the Home-downloading of Copyrighted Material

[Wybo Wiersma]

Hirsh Ballin, the Dutch Minister of Law thinks about banning the
downloading of copyrighted material according to a well known
columnist from the Netherlands.

According to him he does this because the Dutch were strongly opposed
against taxes on MP3-players and harddisks during the last election-
time, causing politicians to speak out against those, and Hirsh Ballin
to ban such taxes untill december 2008.

http://www.nu.nl/news/1217330/1205/Geheim%3A_Hirsch_Ballin_wil_downloaden_verbieden.html
(in Dutch)

So we have something of an expected problem here on the horizon.

Wybo Wiersma