Comments on: Holland Considers Banning DRM, Legalizing Filesharing

By: Koen

Koen — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:57:30 +0000

If you really want to move to Holland; you are welcome!

By: robmyers » links for 2007-04-14

robmyers » links for 2007-04-14 — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:19:27 +0000

[...] Holland Considers Banning DRM, Legalizing Filesharing | TorrentFreak “Earlier this week, Dutch politicians suggested that it might be a good idea to tax Internet traffic, and use this money to compensate the music industry. This, under the condition that DRM is abandoned, and people can’t be charged for downloads.” (tags: acs drm free-culture music filesharing p2p notes-towards-free-culture) [...]

By: In defense of digital music files: tunequest: notes on music and itunes tips

In defense of digital music files: tunequest: notes on music and itunes tips — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:14:11 +0000

[...] Firstly, I’m not even going to get into rights-management and other DRM-related issues. It’s quite possible to build a large collection of digital music and never touch the stuff. Plus, with all the talk lately about eliminating DRM from the marketplace entirely, it may not be a problem in the future. [...]

By: El golpe de mesa de Jobs sobre las DRM...y el posterior debate de este

El golpe de mesa de Jobs sobre las DRM...y el posterior debate de este — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:27:35 +0000

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By: Taxa pentru piraterie ? « bliTz

Taxa pentru piraterie ? « bliTz — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:44:57 +0000

[...] Posted by hony on February 4th, 2007 O serie de politicieni olandezi au sugerat un mod inedit de a compensa pierderile provocate industriei muzicale de catre piraterie: taxarea traficului de pe internet. Aceasta masura ar urma sa fie cuplata cu renuntarea la DRM si la protectiile la copiere. [...]

By: Quoi9 » Round-up of divers recovered EU clippings

Quoi9 » Round-up of divers recovered EU clippings — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:56:10 +0000

[...] The redemption of P2P file sharing is making headway in some parts of Europe. In a similar decision to the one made in a Spanish courtroom last year, the Italian Appeal Courts overturned an earlier conviction against two Turin students, stating that – the downloading of copyrighted material for non lucrative purposes, is not illegal. Dutch politicians however are consider banning DRM outright and legalizing filesharing in exchange for an Internet tax levied to compensate the Music Industry. [...]

By: pb

pb — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:13:40 +0000

Even IFPI's John "sue-them-all" Kennedy seemed to agree with the ideaâ€¦

No he didn't. At a press conference he was proud of killing flat fee licensing in France: RIAA talks flat fees, and how they turned the French [The Register]

By: MÃ©gamodeste

MÃ©gamodeste — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:48:51 +0000

Damn, Nederland people seem to be definately fresher than some corrupted dinausors and unitedstatian servants we have at our French governement (Nikolas Sarkosy + Renaud Donedieu de Vabre).

Nederland people, if you look for a good solution you will find it and will be over all the others countries once again. Good luck !

By: ml2mst

ml2mst — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:40:36 +0000

[quote comment="44314"]Guys,

I don’t understand a word of Dutch. Can you translate what Vam Dam is talking about here?[/quote]

How amusing :)

I followed the link, you provided and Van Dam basically writes, that this whole story, published at NU.nl is yet another media rumor. Or with other words, gossip!

Cheers,

Marti van Lin
Maastricht (NL)

By: dumble

dumble — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:26:10 +0000

Hello, i live in Holland. Martijn van Dam only had a idea. But there are know plans to do this. And Martijn van Dam also said that those plans proberbly will never come..

greetz.>dumble
(sorry for my bad english)

By: Twan van Elk » Blog-archief » Rare jongens, die Nederlanders

Twan van Elk » Blog-archief » Rare jongens, die Nederlanders — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:39:42 +0000

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By: DannyB

DannyB — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:45:27 +0000

A better idea…

Ban DRM, legalize filesharing, and tax the MPAA/RIAA enough to pay for everyone in the country to have free broadband internet service.

By: Skal Tura's (in)sane mumbo-jambo

Skal Tura's (in)sane mumbo-jambo — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:41:03 +0000

DRM to be banned and Filesharing legalized in Holland?…

Holland is considering banning DRM and making Filesharing legalized in Holland, the drawback would be that internet traffic would be taxed to compensate music industry.
This is a little bit impractical, there is legal traffic also, and how about movi…

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:07:36 +0000

The EFF have been supporting a collective licencing scheme for a few years now and the Dutch proposal is simmilar to thiers .

http://www.eff.org/share/collective_lic_wp.php

By: BLOGical Thoughts » Wednesday, 31 January, 2007

BLOGical Thoughts » Wednesday, 31 January, 2007 — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:42:35 +0000

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By: Holanda estudia ilegalizar el DRM y legalizar las redes P2P : planetaipod

Holanda estudia ilegalizar el DRM y legalizar las redes P2P : planetaipod — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:40:56 +0000

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By: Rob Myers

Rob Myers — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:40:05 +0000

“A bad idea if you ask me. It is good to see that politicians are exploring alternative methods to overcome piracy, but this one is quite ridiculous. This clearly shows how alienated politicians sometimes are from the real (or virtual) world.”

Or that they have read “Promises To Keep” and have found a good model for making sure that artists get paid and that society benefits.

Your are right about YouTube though. This model implicitly criminalizes all filesharing in order to make all filesharing legal.

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Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:56:21 +0000

[...] “Last year the Dutch tried to tax all MP3 players, but that proposal didn’t make it into law. But not to worry, they have other brilliant ideas. Earlier this week, Dutch politicians suggested that it might be a good idea to tax Internet traffic, and use this money to compensate the music industry. This, under the condition that DRM is abandoned, and people can’t be charged for downloads. Say what?..” (Read full article here) [...]

By: bltz

bltz — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:28:40 +0000

In Canada, recordable media like CD-R and bank DVD discs are charged a ‘media levy’, which goes to the Canadian record industry.

Meant to compensate the industry for losses via p2p music sharing, it has cited in court as a reason why Canadian users couldn’t be subpoenaed as requested by the CRIA folks.

Kind of a precedent to this idea.

What people are not realizing is that this will be an Universal thing – everyone with an Internet connection in Holland will have to pay a charge, never mind if they download or not.

Not too fair – user pay is a better principle, imo.