The Pirate Bay Ordered To Block Dutch Users

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday July 30, 2009 @05:01AM from the can't-catch-a-break dept.

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."

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Eternal September by Anonymous Coward · 2009-07-30 05:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

...is just a month and a day away. All of USENET trembles at the flood of message-board/autogenerated flooding that is about to take place.
banana-eating jungle monkeys by Anonymous Coward · 2009-07-30 05:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

They can get arrested when they start tossing poop at police officers.
Perhaps, this episode will entirely derail the nation changing health care reform plans.
Its the United Nations of Europe by Snaller · 2009-07-30 09:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

And big money is going to kick your butt all over

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