Pirate Bay Block Lifted In the Netherlands

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @03:50AM from the blood-in-the-streets dept.

swinferno writes "The Dutch ISPs Ziggo and XS4all are no longer required to block access to the websites of The Pirate Bay. [Original in Dutch; here's Google's translation.] This has been decided by the court in The Hague. The blockade has proven to be ineffective. The Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN will have to reimburse legal costs of €326,000. The internet provider XS4ALL has already started lifting the ban. The website of The Pirate Bay was ordered to be blocked by the two major ISPs in January 2012. Recent studies by Amsterdam University and CentERdata showed that this did not reduce the number of downloads from illegal sources. Many people circumvented the blockade."

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326 euros? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-28 04:25 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I don't care how they format numbers in the Netherlands. We use the comma here.
Is it too much to ask that the numbers be reformatted so that they'll be less confusing to US readers? Dates, temperatures, and numbers should be displayed in the format most familiar to readers in the US. Could not one of the esteemed editors perhaps do that? This is a US-centric website, after all.