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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."
A simple proxy server can /not/ bypass his ruling, and will do /nothing/ to prevent enforcement of the ruling.
Anyone using a proxy will be assumed by the courts to be from the Netherlands, and the due fines will be charged, else face forfeiture posessions and/or imprisonment and/or penalty of being legally barred from the internet for a period of time decided by the courts.
Proxies don't help much if you're in jail.
"There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch."