A Dutch judge has ordered the Swedish site The Pirate Bay to block visitors from the Netherlands from accessing the music and film download site. The ruling follows a complaint by Stichting Brein, a Dutch advocacy group for the entertainment industry. The ruling by the Amsterdam court takes affect on Friday or Saturday. The Dutch judge on Thursday imposed a 30,000-euro penalty for each day The Pirate Bay remains accessible for internet users in the Netherlands. The Pirate Bay is a so-called torrent site; it provides links to files allowing users to download music and films using the bittorrent software. Brein says Pirate Bay is violating copyright law by linking to illegal copies. According to Brein director Tim Kuik it is a first that a judge orders a foreign website to block access from the Netherlands itself.
A Dutch judge has ordered the Swedish site The Pirate Bay to block visitors from the Netherlands from accessing the music and film download site. The ruling follows a complaint by Stichting Brein, a Dutch advocacy group for the entertainment industry.
The ruling by the Amsterdam court takes affect on Friday or Saturday. The Dutch judge on Thursday imposed a 30,000-euro penalty for each day The Pirate Bay remains accessible for internet users in the Netherlands. The Pirate Bay is a so-called torrent site; it provides links to files allowing users to download music and films using the bittorrent software. Brein says Pirate Bay is violating copyright law by linking to illegal copies.
According to Brein director Tim Kuik it is a first that a judge orders a foreign website to block access from the Netherlands itself.
Peter Sunde sues Mr. Kuk
Stichting BREIN apparantly lodged a lawsuit against Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij in The Netherlands. None of the defendants was even informed by a court about the hearing which took place two days ago. - "Today we got information about the hearing after a journalist contacted us. We have sent an angry letter to the district court of Amsterdam about this and we're very certain the court will have to throw the case out the window", says Gottfrid Svartholm. "None of us live in The Netherlands, operate from there or do even own the site they are suing over. There are so many errors in this lawsuit that it's almost a crime to spend the courts time this way!", says Fredrik Neij.
- "Today we got information about the hearing after a journalist contacted us. We have sent an angry letter to the district court of Amsterdam about this and we're very certain the court will have to throw the case out the window", says Gottfrid Svartholm.
"None of us live in The Netherlands, operate from there or do even own the site they are suing over. There are so many errors in this lawsuit that it's almost a crime to spend the courts time this way!", says Fredrik Neij.
Sunde, Neij and Svartholm - having already been sued for 30 million SEK in Sweden and having no assets to seize - are not likely to be dettered. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
