… site has previously received unwanted attention from both music and movie companies. So when the site goes offline a lot of people start … the Netherlands, mainly because of legal threats from the Dutch anti-piracy outfit, BREIN. The site then relocated to Canada, but after …
September 1st, 2009
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… only ones who are complaining. In response to GGF’s plans, Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN, that acts on behalf of the music, movie and gaming industries, issued a press release today in which they …
August 20th, 2009
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… initiated by US movie studios, and yesterday they lost a Dutch court case in their absence. From that action they now face the prospect … over 3 years ago.
Italy’s FIMI (Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana) and FPM (Federation against Musical Piracy) say they will be …
July 31st, 2009
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… to trade bandwidth and computing power for credits to buy music.
GGF said it would acquire the site’s domain names, sites and code … optimistic for GGF and their purchase, events today in a Dutch court painted a rather less optimistic outlook.
Notorious anti-piracy …
July 21st, 2009
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… with its location. This material could include movies, music and TV shows and this made it a target for notorious anti-piracy outfit … vigorously deny this and are now taking legal action the Dutch anti-piracy outfit. The background to the case can be found in our …
July 2nd, 2009
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… copyrighted material. Presently, downloading movies and music for personal use in The Netherlands is seen as “fair use” and not … a working group consisting of four members of the Dutch parliament looked into the matter. They suggested criminalizing … conclusions of the report were widely debated in the Dutch press. Worryingly, also some of the factual errors about Mininova that …
July 2nd, 2009
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… by the movie, music and gaming industries, BREIN has been a thorn in the side of BitTorrent … operators of the site, demanding that they block access to Dutch visitors.
Claiming that the founders of the site are untraceable by …
June 23rd, 2009
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… the upcoming trial, the TV program EénVandaag asked 3500 Dutch youngsters aged between 12 and 24 years old about their download … massive 93% of the surveyed respondents said they download music, movies or games from the Internet, while only 5% of this group of …
May 21st, 2009
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… they find on Usenet, which could include the usual movies, music and TV shows. This caused it to be a target for notorious anti-piracy … against FTD public, BREIN chief Tim Kuik spoke with Dutch publication Volkskrant and the resulting article titled “You do not pay …
May 20th, 2009
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… by the movie, music and gaming industries, BREIN has been a thorn in the side of BitTorrent … later.
This week, BREIN will be in court with another Dutch based site, Mininova, and TorrentFreak will of course keep you updated on …
May 17th, 2009
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… year we managed to discover that four people who shared music via the tracker barely escaped with their freedom.
The individuals … it involved co-ordinated action by both British and Dutch police forces. IFPI and the BPI, two well known anti-piracy …
May 15th, 2009
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