Star Verdict in Dutch The Pirate Bay Case: Nothing Gained or Lost
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 31st Jul 2009 15:46 UTC
Law and Order Yesterday, the Dutch online community was surprised by a verdict from a judge who declared that The Pirate Bay had to make itself unavailable in The Netherlands. This verdict was cast in a case the Dutch RIAA/MPAA-like organisation BREIN had started against The Pirate Bay. With it being a widely known and established fact that downloading copyrighted content off the internet - even if the upload was illegal - is not illegal in The Netherlands, where does this verdict come from? Is it truly a win for the entertainment industry, and a loss for Dutch consumers? Not really - the situation is much, much simpler than that.
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RE[2]: Comment by Kokopelli
by Kokopelli on Fri 31st Jul 2009 17:09 UTC in reply to "RE: Comment by Kokopelli"
Kokopelli
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2005-07-06

I did, did you?

They summoned The Pirate Bay via - you in the back, don't laugh - Twitter and Facebook, among other things. This raised a lot of eyebrows before the trial even started; is it legal to summon someone to court via Twitter and Facebook - someone from abroad? Well, the verdict states that apart from Twitter and Facebook, BREIN also sent the summons to the lawyer in the Swedish TPB case and to the TPB owners' private home addresses as known by the Swedish local government (even though they don't live there any more). The judge declared that this was enough.


You seem to have left a good chunk off. biased it is.

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