Dutch Court Forces ISPs To Block the Pirate Bay

New submitter swinferno writes "After recent successes in Finland, Italy and Belgium, the Dutch Copyright protection organization BREIN has obtained a verdict that forces two major ISPs to block access to The Pirate Bay domains and gives them the right to submit future domains/IP addresses to be blocked in the future without court order."

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Right to submit future domains, but

[DCTech]

The verdict also said that if they submit non-TPB domains or ip's and violate that court decision, they will be legally liable.

Re:Right to submit future domains, but

[DCTech]

Except that it's only limited to one site, and the decision was only made because TPB didn't start filtering dutch visitors like earlier court verdict said. They have also been playing games setting up additional domains and ip's, because they know companies have to go via slow courts to get them banned.

Re:Right to submit future domains, but

[DCTech]

The judge actually specifically addressed that issue.

While the court noted that an ISP blockade against The Pirate Bay would also prevent legitimate access to the site, it noted that the legal offerings available at The Pirate Bay are not limited to the site and are also available from other sites and means. As such, preventing a large number of copyright infringements is justified.

Et tu, Netherlands part 2

[Anonymous Coward]

The Dutch ISP XS4ALL just decided to appeal again. They might win since BREIN based their offence on some very (VERY) poorly done statistics.

Re:Et tu, Netherlands?

[Baloroth]

BREIN isn't a US organization. Note how it is representing Dutch movie and recording studios? Nor is there any sign they need the US to encourage them. Believe it or not, the US is not the only source of corporate greed or stupidity in the world, despite what many Slashdot commentators seem to think.

Re:Et tu, Netherlands?

[rubycodez]

that's pretty much what we did at the end of WW I, the unfair treatment of Germany at that time caused WW II.

The Dutch are apathic shitheels

[Mister Liberty]

Believe me, I know.
And Stichting Brein (=Braindead), under director Tim 'brown arm' Kuik
is a limp dick sissy.
Guess where his nick comes from -- he likes to have it up American asses.

--
bjd

Re:Et tu, Netherlands?

[Hatta]

No, Godwins law is as valid as it ever was. All Godwins law states is that as the length of a thread increases, the probability of someone mentioning Hitler or Nazis approaches one. The rebirth of fascism has only shifted that curve to the left a bit.

Re:Et tu, Netherlands?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm from the Netherlands, and a volunteer of BitsofFreedom.

We've been quite sucesfull in being a counterweight to the lobby organisations in parlement (downloading is still legal in the Netherlands, and we've just passed Network Neutrality), but this is quite a setback.

The battle rages on..

Re:Et tu, Netherlands?

[fritsd]

But it is a fact that they fought the Nazi's, not an "argument".

no... sorry, but it is disingenuous (sp?) to put it like that..
I read a quote somewhere (can't be bothered to look it up but it could well have been from Lou de Jong) that went something like this:
"5% happily collaborated with the Nazis, 5% joined the resistance and fought the Nazis, and the other 90% stayed at home and kept their curtains closed."

For a seriously good (but fictional) film about the shades of grey you get in war-time and after, I suggest watching "The Assault"/"De Aanslag" by Fons Rademakers, based on the excellent book by Harry Mulisch.

Warning: film may shatter easy black-vs-white preconceptions about good and evil.