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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."
... is a big deal in most courts, as far as I know.
Even for something like a traffic ticket, if the cop doesn't show up in court, you're let off... (in the US anyways)
How are you going to get users to take the How Dutch Am I test before accessing the web page?
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
you are now required to use a proxy to access our website, we apologize for the inconvenience.
Do you D?
Seattle, WA - The Kingdom of the Netherlands has been ordered to pay Irving Schwartzmizzlegub $50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 for causing his pet cockerspanial , Peppy-dee, to die. Judge Thomas Hikemyjacksbitchpeople awarded Schwartzmizzlegub the large sum because, in his own words "These fucking people live by dikes, and I got Herpes in Amsterdam when I was 20."
Schwartzmizzlegub alleged that the osmotic psychowaves emanating from several Dutch cities caused little Peppy-dee to spiral into canine depression, prostitute himself at a nearby 7-11, and ultimately take his own life by leaping into the Slurpee machine.
The large size of the award is assumed to be because the Kingdom of the Netherlands never appeared in court. A representative of the Dutch ambassador tried to explain that countries can't actually move, but the judge rejected that, called the Ambassador's representative "a sub-German freek" and made the award.
Schwartzmizzlegub is planning to use the money to clone Elvis and make him into a sex-slave.
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The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
IANAL and I know that is a bad idea. (wow. almost spelled that "I ANAL")
There are legal means of addressing the situation, and contempt of court is not one of them.
Step 1) Make a blanket rule on any IP resolving to a .NL address
Step 2) The rule presents the users with the following message:
Alright, the last link might be a bit much, but still ...
Hello Friend,
This is an order to appear before the Nigerian High Court for fraud charges that have been perpetrated against you. I am a widow and also the judge of the court and have asked that you appear to prosecute the man who stole your identity. The fine for that in Nigeria is $600,000,000 (SIX HUNDRED MILLION US DOLLARS) and if you appear in court, we will award you 1% of the damages, which is $6,000,000 (SIX MILLION US DOLLARS) as a token of thanks for your time and honor to justice. Please call the number below in order to verify your plans to assist us with this trial.
God Bless,
Frank Liu Xiong
+34.37.342.34209
866 Muskrat Way
Habubajab
Nigeria
I am the richest astronaut ever to win the superbowl.
Now I know there is a limit on the fine, but for the sake of ridiculousness...
Population of the Netherlands, 16,500,156
Fine per person per day, US $42,300
GDP of Sweden, US $484,550,000,000
Number of years required for the entire economic output of Sweden to pay back for a week of TPB usage by the entire Netherlands, 10
Where do they come up with these damn numbers?
Maybe someone should provide the instructions in a torrent.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Please stop repeating http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1320677&cid=28884515 yourself.
There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
(under Dutch copyright law you cannot offer services that allow third parties to infringe upon the copyrights of others)
In my country, it is illegal for me to read your post, therefore you will be sentenced to death shortly.