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Court Orders the Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-the-names-of-the-torrents dept.

lbalbalba writes "A Dutch court ruled today that The Pirate Bay has to remove a list of torrents linking to copyrighted works. The list is to be provided by BREIN (similair to the RIAA, in Holland), and is similar to the earlier ruling against Mininova. The defendants are given three months to comply, if not, they will face penalties of 5,000 euros ($7,500) per person, per day."

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  1. Re:Hurrr by sopssa · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you read the article, it means they have to block them too, and also block all dutch users from accessing *all* copyrighted torrents.

    Other interesting parts from the article:

    The defense had argued that not Fredrik, Gottfrid and Peter were not the owners of the site, but a Seychelles based company named Reservella. The Court rejected this defense as the defendants could not name the current owners or provide any documents proving that the site was sold. It concluded that the three defendants are responsible for the site.

    This doesn't really sound like a surprise. They're still actively working on the site too.

    Ernst-Jan Louwers, the lawyer for the three Pirate Bay defendants told TorrentFreak that his clients are currently considering whether or not to appeal this judgment.

    Sounds like they're actually starting to giving up. All the recent news and problems probably have softened them up.

  2. Re:So... the dutch? by sopssa · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, this guy was extradited from Australia to USA for copyright infringement

    Australian pirate to be extradited to the United States

    A ground-breaking ruling against an Australian man accused of pirating software, games and music worth over $50 million should have all pirates in the world scared. Hew Raymond Griffiths who went by the online name BanDiDo, has never been to the United States but will be tried in a U.S. court after the U.S. won the battle to extradite him.

  3. Re:Hurrr by Kozz · · Score: 4, Informative

    On the occasions when I need to find something via BitTorrent that I'm not certain I can find anywhere else, I will check this bookmark:
    http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/peersharing/f/torrentsearch.htm

    I can't keep up with which torrent sites are up, down, removed or what. This page usually gives me a fighting chance of finding a functional torrent-related site with the *cough* information I need.

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  4. Translation correct - source incorrect by Animaether · · Score: 4, Informative

    From the verdict ( http://zoeken.rechtspraak.nl/resultpage.aspx?snelzoeken=true&searchtype=ljn&ljn=BK1067&u_ljn=BK1067 - Dutch ), emphasis mine...

    7.2. Orders the contributors of TPB, each separately and together, to remove and keep removed any of the torrent files offered on TPB with which files containing works subject to the copyrights of authors who are members of The Brein Foundation [Stichting Brein] may be exchanged, with a penalty of EUR 5,000.00 each time they (TPB, ed.) do not conform to this order, with a maximum of EUR 3,000,000.00.

    So, no, this isn't about ALL torrent files. Your Linux Distros and such are safe.

  5. Holland and the Netherlands by Fuzzums · · Score: 4, Informative

    Holland : The Netherlands => California : The USA

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