Dutch Govt to Make Downloading a Crime, Block P2P Sites
Fred Teeven, the Secretary for Security and Justice wants to make downloading for personal use a crime, and to allow copyright holders to obtain a court order to ...
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BREIN Shutters 11 “Illegal” Usenet Forums
Uses earlier ruling that ordered Usenet forum FTD to remove links to copyrighted files to press other Usenet forums to remove them as well.
After having successfully convinced a Dutch court ...
Dutch Anti-P2P Group, MPAA Shutter 12 BitTorrent Sites
BREIN teams up with the MPAA to shutdown more unnamed "illegal sites," but does it even matter?
BREIN has been one of the more prolific anti-P2P groups over the years, ...
MPAA Helps Dutch Anti-P2P Group Seize 29 Domain Names
Takes fight against illegal file-sharing to a whole new level by allowing foreign groups to seize US-based domain names before the accused have even had a chance to plead their ...
Mininova Settles Copyright Infringement Case with BREIN
BitTorrent tracker site agress to abide by earlier copyright infringement verdict of the Court of Utrecht and pay the Dutch anti-P2P group an "undisclosed," and presumably reduced, amount of money.
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BREIN’s Director Physically Delivers Dutch Verdict to Pirate Bay’s Sunde
BREIN managing director Tim Kuik tracks down the co-founder of the Swedish BitTorrent tracker site in Vienna to deliver a copy of a Dutch court's ruling against him in person.
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Dutch ISPs Don’t Have to Block The Pirate Bay
Court says that anti-piracy group BREIN cannot prove that a majority of Ziggo subscribers infringe the copyright of the artists whom it represents.
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Dutch Court Reaffirms Pirate Bay Ban
Upholds previous ruling that the Swedish BitTorrent tracker site immediately begin preventing Dutch users from accessing copyrighted material, giving the 3 founders 3 months to remove a list ...
BREIN Shutters 384 BitTorrent Sites, World Yawns
Dutch anti-piracy group cleans house in ways that the IFPI, RIAA, and MPAA surely envy, shuttering 422 "illegal websites," 5 usenet indexers, and an FTP ...
Dutch Anti-Piracy Group Trying to Ban Usenet Discussions
BREIN says what Usenet community Fill Threads Database (FTD) does is "simply criminal" even though it doesn't provide hyperlinks, torrents, NZB-files or any other way to download content.
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Dutch Court Rules Against the Pirate Bay
Must prevent Dutch users from being able to access copyrighted material, and was given 3 months to remove a list of torrents from the Swedish BitTorrent tracker site.
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Dutch Court Orders Pirate Bay to Block Netherlands
Gives it 10 days before facing a $42,000 p/day fine.
Late last week a Dutch court ordered the Pirate Bay's founders to begin blocking access by Dutch citizens or face ...
Mininova Tests Out “Content Recognition System”
BitTorrent tracker site wants to make it "easier for copyright owners to remove torrents that refer to infringing content from Mininova."
Dutch-based BitTorrent tracker site Mininova has announced that it's ...
Razorback 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 Servers Forced Offline by BREIN
eMule users may have been wondering why they haven't been able to connect to the Razorback 3 servers all week this week. ZeroPaid has learned that anti-piracy organization BREIN ...
