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Old 02-05-2014, 07:52 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by MikeB1972 View Post
Pretty hard not to, as in the Netherlands downloading from (what would elsewhere be completely illegal) torrents is perfectly legal.
Internet providers even advertise with slogans such as "Download all your movies and music even faster!". Well... you can only do that if it's legal to download that stuff.

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Can you explain how that worked, please? It's not a system I'm familiar with. ie how does an individual author get compensated by the process?
I don't know how it works, exactly. We pay extra taxes on a lot of media and devices such as hard drives, flash cards, USB sticks, entire computers, CD/DVD's, DVD-recorders and so on. That money is then distributed to several organizations, who then give it to the artists. This distribution is handled by "distribution keys" (is that the correct word in English? Dutch: "verdeelsleutel", which is a pre-determined way of distributing the money), but i don't know how those "keys" are determined.

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