Once France opened the doors to the ban of downloading copyrighted material, it was only a matter of time that others tried to do so. Very bad news. We really have to get successful at the elections if we want to stop this political trend. Only thing is I don't know how to do so.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/9/3, Wybo Wiersma <<a href="mailto:wybo@logilogi.org">wybo@logilogi.org</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hirsh Ballin, the Dutch Minister of Law thinks about banning the<br>downloading of copyrighted material according to a well known<br>columnist from the Netherlands.<br><br>According to him he does this because the Dutch were strongly opposed
<br>against taxes on MP3-players and harddisks during the last election-<br>time, causing politicians to speak out against those, and Hirsh Ballin<br>to ban such taxes untill december 2008.<br><br><a href="http://www.nu.nl/news/1217330/1205/Geheim%3A_Hirsch_Ballin_wil_downloaden_verbieden.html">
http://www.nu.nl/news/1217330/1205/Geheim%3A_Hirsch_Ballin_wil_downloaden_verbieden.html</a><br>(in Dutch)<br><br>So we have something of an expected problem here on the horizon.<br><br>Wybo Wiersma<br>____________________________________________________
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