Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 31st Jul 2009 15:46 UTC
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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2007-02-20
I do not know whether Thom has expirienced massive copyright infringments already. A situation where one does not get paid for his/her work that is published globally.
You would not write articles like this if you had.
I think there is a lot wrong in this world but simplifying to : Pirate bay = OK, BREIN = BAD ,
is journalism that belongs in the gutter.
Especially if I compare this article to the one you wrote on Apple and the Mac-Clones.
Trying to see both sides is what makes a good journalist, and I know you can be one.
Also, I have some experience with BREIN and I must say they are not the kind of people you make out of them.
Jan