Court Rules That The Pirate Bay Must Block Dutch Users… Again… But ISPs Don't Have To Block
from the for-all-works? dept
A year after an initial ruling saying that all Dutch users must be blocked from reaching The Pirate Bay, another court has upheld the ruling, saying not only that The Pirate Bay must block Dutch users from accessing the site, but that three of the site’s founders have to pay 50,000 euros per day if they fail to do so. Given how those three have responded to previous rulings, I imagine they won’t pay much attention to this ruling either.
Of course, the Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has been fighting this campaign on both fronts. Not only was it trying to force The Pirate Bay to block access to Dutch surfers, but it was also trying to force ISPs to block access back to The Pirate Bay as well. The good news is that the courts have actually rejected that attempt, saying that “there is no evidence that the majority of the customers are using The Pirate Bay to infringe copyright” and that if BREIN wants to target users, it should target them individually.
Filed Under: blocking, copyright, isps, netherlands
Companies: the pirate bay, ziggo
Comments on “Court Rules That The Pirate Bay Must Block Dutch Users… Again… But ISPs Don't Have To Block”
I’m not Dutch, nor in the Neatherlands, but Pirate Bay appears down for me right now in the US.
same here cant connect to any torrent page just the chat
same here cant connect to any torrent page just the chat
same here, i’m in the US too. Looks like the ship has sunk
wtf.. now I cant get in the chat ether?%^%$&% I think your right blade
Ireland biggest ISP........
Eircom rolled over at hints of legal action and have filtered TPB altogether for the last year or so.
Re: Ireland biggest ISP........
this happens once in a while but never this long
man this is bull
Ok It’s still down! I think it’s over for good this time 🙁
WOOOOH U.S.A.!!!!
yeah it’s down for me…. now where will i go for my porn
Fuck YOU Anonymous Coward
YOUR A PUSSY
yeah, man i love porn
yeah, man i love porn
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
This webpage is not available.
“The webpage at http://thepiratebay.org/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
Error 118 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT): The operation timed out.”
Re: http://funnytranslator.com/
Original text:
“The webpage at http://thepiratebay.org/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. Error 118 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT): The operation timed out.”
…56 translations later we get:
“Name: URL or error 118 thepiratebai.org Internet: Web: err _ konnektyon _ timed _ Out) research”
ROFL – Thank you Grumpy!
When this
“there is no evidence that the majority of the customers are using The Pirate Bay to infringe copyright”
is run through funnytranslator.com this comes out:
“There is evidence that most customers use violation Pirate Bay”
Yup, that’s how lawyers hear it alright.
They will be back!
Gee BREIN, what are we going to do tonight?
The same thing we do every night…
TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
well we still have felopy lol
Don't give up !
Piratebay can’t give up … they are our top guys… If they fall that’s a major victories for the big companies… We seriously need to revolt
Its still down…and I was going to illegally download a movie.
Where is the justice!?!
WTF
Site is back up.
You imbeciles really think the bay is down for good? Jesus, you americans are so stupid sometimes..
They’ll be online within 5 hours.
And… it’s back =)
Re: Re:
http://torrentfreak.com/worlds-first-pirate-internet-provider-launches-in-sweden-100720/
Hmmm…
So there’s no evidence that the majority of Dutch users are using the site to infringe copyright…. but all Dutch users have to be blocked anyway?
That doesn’t make sense at all.
Pirate Bay
Pirate Bay is working in this part of the US.
Why are people freaking out whenever the pirate bay goes down for a bit? Damn kids these days! Patience! PATIENCE!
page works fine
sucks if you live i suppose in the USA and dutchland
everywhere else its PRICELESS
Works fine in S Texas
Just grabbed a test file, we’ll just chalk that up to a little R&D time at work.