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Originally Posted by sirmaru
Thanks for that clarification on the Netherlands law. By the way, have you read anything in the Netherlands newspapers about any disposition of the eBook question to the European Court of Justice?
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No, not yet.
The only thing I know of that the government is looking to make "clearly illegal downloads" illegal. (As mentioned, a clearly illegal download is getting a high-profile 2013 movie on Usenet in 2014.)
How they are going to check it? I don't know. It's impossible to check each and every download. It's even impossible for Usenetproviders to try and keep Usenet clean from illegal uploads. I suspect it will be just be a "paper rule": not enforced, except in special circumstances. In other words, if you don't arouse suspicion by downloading huge amounts of data, you'll be left alone.
Me: Download 20GB a month. Care. There may be a book in there, or 1 or 2 DVD movies. So what? Way too expensive to check out if that is so.
Neighbor: Download 2 TeraByte a month. All alarm bells at the provider side will go off, and that guy will be checked out. Nobody downloads 2 TeraByte of "Linux distributions" a month.