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Court Orders the Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents
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."
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.
Just out of curiosity, what jurisdiction do the dutch have?
I'm pretty sure if someone in France decided to order me to delete something, I'd tell them to get stuffed.
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Cool. I get to not go to france AND tell the court to stuff it!
From: http://thepiratebay.org/legal
I wonder if that still applies these days.
It's not property and you, sir, are not an intellectual.
The very idea that something infinitely reproducible could be considered to have value is preposterous and flies in the face of call macro economic theory. Infinite supply results in infinitesimal value.
Eventually people will realize that what is being called intellectual property is actually the result of a service, then we will all be happier.
I want to pay the person who provided the service, but pretending that something ethereal is property is not the way to do it.
It is simple to create copies, people will continue to do it and the companies who fight it will lose potential customers.
Wake up.
We are willing to pay for the services rendered, but your prices are ridiculous.
block all dutch users from accessing *all* copyrighted torrents.
So they have to block all Dutch users then?
I would be surprised if there was a *single* item on TPB that wasn't copyrighted, whether it's legal or not.
Linux distros? Perfectly legal, but still copyrighted.
Is someone screwing up the translation, or is the Dutch court really that brain-dead?
Well in order for me to find out if the work really DOES belong to the Brein group, I need a complete computer-usable copy of all their work so I can download all the torrents and check if they are part of their copyright realm.
I will also need a large ISP connection. I will charge the Brein group for this since I'm now an agent trying to protect THEIR copyrights.
I promise not to deliberately hand any of this information over to unscrupulous parties. I will use the same protective techniques the UK Ministry Of Defence uses! That should be secure enough!
And do you think that they aren't entitled to make a living?
People like you make me sick.
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