Brein takes down more Torrent Sites

Written by Ernesto on April 06, 2006

During the past two weeks the Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN forced 6 (small) torrent sites to stop their services. Brein is known for its intimidating techniques, and is successful in taking down sites, mostly set up by hobbyists.

Among BREIN’s newest victims are weblog.nl, movieget.nl, and torrents4you.com.

BREIN claims to have taken down 50% of all BitTorrent sites in the Netherlands.

Brein often threatens the site owners to admit they are infringing copyright and asks them to give BREIN all the information about their members or we will sue. These threatening and intimidating talk seems to work, although Brein has no legal power, they do have the money to sue.

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4 Responses (Add yours)

1 Apr 06, 2006 at 15:37 by Marco Raaphorst

I was just reading this:
http://www.anti-piracy.nl/Opinie/Wat_mag_niet.html

Instead of being polite and telling what a customer is legal to do, they show us what we CAN NOT do. That’s not friendly… and if fact: simply stupid.

But I am sure than within a few years time everything BREIN considers illegal is then cosidered to be legal. So: WTF!

2 Apr 16, 2006 at 10:18 by guti

hola

3 Nov 22, 2007 at 13:00 by Anonymous

as usual one rule for them !!! and loads for the rest of us !!! they can break them !! but we cant…
they should be held accountable as what they are doing is industrial espionage..which is against the law in most country’s ….judd-ski

4 Nov 22, 2007 at 13:02 by judd-ski

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