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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2009-08-01
So, if downloading is legal, why has The Pirate Bay been sentenced like this? As we all know, The Pirate Bay does not offer content - it merely points to it, in the same way Google can. Well, this is where it all gets a little bit ridiculous.
However, if i'm not mistaken, pointing to copyrighted content is not legal in The Netherlands.
Please take a look at the following links: (sorry dutch)
http://www.iusmentis.com/auteursrecht/nl/mp3/zoeken/
http://www.iusmentis.com/auteursrecht/nl/mp3/mp3legaal/#MP3Zoekmach...