TorrentFreak reports that a report, which was commissioned by the government, estimates the positive effect of file sharing on the Dutch economy would be around 100 million euros a year.

Isn't that amazing?

Can you believe this? Most surprising is that a government report says it.

Hmm. In France all government reports say the contrary, but of course they are always written by analysts paid by the music and movie industry, far from any neutral point of view. Service and software providers are even required by law to tell the contrary to their users, the words being that "illegal file sharing is dangerous for artistic creation". Us being honest citizens and all with VIPeers and Pump we write that sentence all over the place. Tough to imagine it could be not true.

Oh well. Let's hope. Maybe the times are a-chaging. Yes we can!