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Disclaimer this article was not written to promote sharing ed material without permission, but to inform its readers about the current laws and the methods used by german pirates. The chances for being caught are small but they exist. Legal downloading has at last entered the mainstream. General terms and conditions and what that means for localizing contracts to german law. Genitalia must be pixelated or censored and all participants must be 18 years of age or older. I recently moved to berlin and since this is such a music capital i hear great music all the time i want to download.
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