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The Pirate Bay Ordered To Block Dutch Users
secmartin writes "In a totally unexpected ruling, a Dutch court has decided that The Pirate Bay should block visitors from the Netherlands within 10 days or face a fine of €30,000 per defendant per day. Peter Sunde has already announced that he will appeal the ruling. Even though the defendants sent a letter explaining that they were unable to come to the hearing and provided arguments in their favor, these were ignored by the judge because they failed to appear in his court. The full text of the ruling was just published (in Dutch, PDF) by Peter Sunde, and further coverage is available at Forbes."
... at the vast resources the record and movie companies are pouring into their litigation jihad against TPB. Good lawyers don't exactly grow on trees.
Clearly, they see piracy -- as a political movement -- as an existential threat to their business, and are prepared to do absolutely anything to kill it.
Reckon that the record companies would engage in outright criminality to fight their enemies? Given their penchant for suing defenceless, computer-illiterate single mums and kids, there's definitely a whiff of Big Tobacco or United Fruit there...