Bandwidth Blog » BREIN http://www.bandwidthblog.com South African and Global internet startup news Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:03:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 South African and Global internet startup news Bandwidth Blog no South African and Global internet startup news Bandwidth Blog » BREIN http://www.bandwidthblog.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.bandwidthblog.com Pirate Bay Banned in the Netherlands http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2009/07/31/pirate-bay-banned-in-the-netherlands/ http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2009/07/31/pirate-bay-banned-in-the-netherlands/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:06:40 +0000 Charl Norman http://www.bandwidthblog.com/?p=895 Although the Netherlands allows all sorts of illegalities (that we enjoy) to get a legal license, that’s not the case when it comes to ruling against Pirate Bay.

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The Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has just won a court against the infamous domain. BREIN’s lawyer argued that Pirate Bay is responsible for millions of copyright infringements every day and therefore the site should be blocked to visitors from The Netherlands. The owners of Pirate Bay however did not receive any summons regarding the case nor were they aware of such kind of a development. As a consequence, they have asked the Amsterdam court to quash the case and impose damages against BREIN. What though ensued was the case decided in favor of BREIN.

The Pirate Bay has been ordered to stop all their activities in the Netherlands within ten days and in case there is non compliance- all defendants will be ordered to pay 30,000 euros ($42,300) per day in penalties up to a maximum of 3 million euros ($4,231,000).

What’s ironical though, is that BREIN never filed the case against the Pirate Bay when it used to be an illegal domain, yet they thought of doing it when it became legal…

[via TorrentFreak]

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