Okay, two points need to be made with regard to this story, IMHO:

“[BREIN is] demanding that The Pirate Bay block access from Dutch surfers”

See, this is where the whole Pirate analogy and name actually gets really fun. Because when I read that line, I picture Dutch officials in colonial times asking a ship filled with Norse Vikings flying the Jolly Roger to not access, or pirate, dutch wares. Ostensibly the Dutch don’t give a damn about American copyright. I then picture the Norse pirates looking at each other bewildered, shortly before they skewer the Dutch merchants with their rapiers (what a fun word) and then do a little insult sword fighting with their corpses.

“Or perhaps it is because while they have a court victory, the weebles that run TPB are waddling around and doing everything except complying with the existing judgement?”

And THAT is the problem with the EU. The idea that the Dutch can in any way utilize the ruling of a foreign court is absurd on a level that is frightening. In fact, it throws the whole idea of sovereignty into question. Of course, the same plutocrats that invoke these kinds of measures want to do away with sovereign nations anyway, so I guess it kinda makes sense.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: An America still talking about the evils of communism and a unified European continent? Hitler would have been proud.