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Dutch Government To Outlaw File-Sharing and Block The Pirate Bay

Monday, April 11th, 2011

Traditionally, The Netherlands has been one of the most lenient countries when it comes to the sharing of copyrighted material on the Internet, but this will change if the Government gets to implement their new plans. Under new legislation downloading of copyrighted movies and music will become outlawed. The lawmakers claim that this change is needed to crack down on ‘pirate sites’.

Source: Dutch Government To Outlaw File-Sharing and Block The Pirate Bay