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[8]: Comment by Kokopelli
by testman on Sat 1st Aug 2009 04:56 UTC in reply to "RE[7]: Comment by Kokopelli"
testman
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2007-10-15

Arguing ad personam is very unprofessional Thom.

Please, you're making a fool out of yourself. I'm not the one for tinfoil hats, but your comments here are giving me the faint impression you might be liasioned to a RIAA/MPAA-like organisation.

With comments like that I don't think it is Kokopeilli that is looking like a fool.

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