Biggest Dutch Torrentsite forced to go down.
Written by Ernesto on March 15, 2006Brein, the Dutch anti-piracy organization has taken down 6 dutch torrentsites. Among these sites is Dutchnova, a torrentsite with 25.000 members. Brein gave the sites a choice: admit you infringe copyright and give us all the information about your members or we will sue you. These threatening and intimidating talk seems to work, although Brein [...]
Brein, the Dutch anti-piracy organization has taken down 6 dutch torrentsites. Among these sites is Dutchnova, a torrentsite with 25.000 members. Brein gave the sites a choice: admit you infringe copyright and give us all the information about your members or we will sue you. These threatening and intimidating talk seems to work, although Brein has no legal power, they do have the money to sue.
The Brein press release states that the webmasters could face up to four years in prison or a $54.000 fine. This seems very unlikely, but threatening enough to people who don’t know better.
The Dutchnova site is closed by the webmasters because their hosting provider asked them to, and they want to keep a good relation with their provider. Dutchnova:
Unfortunately our hosting provider reported that a complaint was filed by BREIN in which they argue that Dutchnova is spreading copyrighted material and that there’s a “financial motive” to run the site (whatever that may mean)
This is not true and is pure intimidation!
However, relationship with our hosting provider is worth a lot to us so for now we comply to their request and take the site offline.
Thanks for the good times!
Witheet.com talked to Divxlover, who used to be a part of the Dutchnova team and reports:
According to Divxlover, one of the volunteers at Dutchnova, Brein’s got what they wanted by intimidating Dutchnova’s hosting provider Denit Services. The 25.000 members of the site need to find another place to get their torrents.
Brein wants to file a complaint against Dutchnova, unless they admit publicly on their website that they infringed copyright, and promise that they will never do it again. Moreover, Brein wants all the available information on the members of Dutchnova. If they comply to these requests, Brein will drop the case.
“This is pure intimidation” according to Divxlover. He thinks that the complaint is just a default letter that Brein sends out to scare people who don’t know better. “they even say we’re commercial, that’s a pertinent lie, we never made any money off the site” Divxlover continues.”And we never infringed any copyright, since there are no copyrighted files physically available on our server” Divxlover. In the meanwhile Dutchnova destroyed their database, this means their members don’t have to worry that their information will end up at Brein’s office.
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There are no rules here!
I can not believe a hosting provider is doing this. BREIN will sue Dutchnova and not the provider.
If there are copyright infringements, sure there’s no case to stand up against it in court. BREIN is saying downloading is illegal which is not the case. But they keep on doing that. BREIN is evil as we all know.
y muppet its a matter of we want to go down without it lookin as if the anti piracy geeks have won so we want to keep our relationship with the isp very cool guys thats how you laugh at them brien without sayin jack lol go on then
Well people, after many years of being ripped off for music and movies by the the huge powerful companies, the tables have turned. I was lucky ten years ago while working for CBS/SONY as I could buy Cd’s etc for a very low price. When I left, my only option was to purchase from the usual retail outlets. €40.00 for a CD! The artist gets only a few cents per copy! The rest to the shareholders. If you download files for your personal use only, then you should have no worries. If however, you are making copies of files and selling them without having the copyright, you can be in serious shit if caught! If I buy a movie and put it on the net in order to send it to a friend it’s not OK, but if I lend/give it to the person, then that’s OK. Until the powers to be make some sensible new legislation regarding the internet we will keep file sharing!
Imagine some unlucky sod being stuck in prison for 4 years for having downloaded/uploaded copyrighted files and having to share a cell with some psychopath doing only 3 years for manslaughter!
Let’s in the meantime hope that the authorities don’t screw the filesharingnet up!!!
Woody
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