Torrent Site Webhost Ordered to Pay “Piracy” Damages

Ernesto
October 24, 2012
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Hollywood-backed anti-piracy outfit BREIN has won a landmark case against XS Networks, the former hosting provider of torrent site SumoTorrent. The Court of The Hague ruled that the provider is responsible for damages copyright holders suffered through the torrent site’s activities. The Dutch verdict has far-reaching implications for the liability of hosting providers for the conduct of their clients.

For years Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has tried to find out who is behind the SumoTorrent website.

After being initially hosted in the Netherlands, the site moved to Canada to escape BREIN’s jurisdiction, but it later returned as a client of hosting provider XS Networks.

Having won cases against other torrent site hosters in the past, the anti-piracy group was quick to ask XS Networks to shut SumoTorrent down and hand over the personal details of its owner. XS Networks refused, however, and said it would only respond to a court order.

The provider and SumoTorrent eventually agreed to voluntarily hand over some personal details, but not before the torrent site had moved to a new host in the Ukraine. To make matters worse for BREIN, the personal details on record at the hosting provider turned out to be false.

So SumoTorrent “escaped” again.

According to BREIN the Dutch hosting provider was to blame for this outcome, and in response went on to sue the company earlier this year in pursuit of damages. BREIN argued that XS Networks acted negligently when it refused to take the site down when asked to do so.

Today the Court of The Hague handed down its verdict in which it sides with BREIN.

The Court ruled that SumoTorrent is clearly facilitating copyright infringement and states that XS Networks should have taken the site offline when BREIN asked them to.

“The unlawful characteristics of the (activities on) SumoTorrent were evident. Moreover they were obvious to XS Networks, or should have been obvious to XS Networks,” the verdict reads.

By keeping the site online, the Court adds, the provider acted unlawfully against the interests of copyright holders represented by BREIN.

Aside from thousands of euros in legal costs, the provider must now pay damages for the infringing content that was shared via SumoTorrent. How much XS Networks will have to pay is yet to be determined.

The Court also ordered XS Networks to hand over all personal information they have on the operator of SumoTorrent or pay a penalty of 10,000 euros a day.

The ruling is a crucial one concerning the liability of hosting providers for websites that are operated by their customers. According to the verdict groups representing copyright holders can demand websites be taken offline, and it’s then up to the provider to determine whether this request is legitimate.

In other words, providers themselves have to determine whether a site is facilitating copyright infringement, as opposed to the court.

With this ruling in hand BREIN can ask for the shutdown of any site they deem to be infringing, as well asking for the personal details of the site owner. Providers who refuse to cooperate will make themselves liable for damages caused by the website in question.

A dangerous precedent, both from privacy and censorship perspectives.

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anon

One of the more painful failures of the dutch justice system..
- Violated0
  
  One more painful stab in the gut to technology and progress. Now watch hosting services including cloud storage companies flee the Netherlands resulting in millions of lost income to this country.
  - XFyrios
    
    Indeed. So basically now cops don’t need a warrant if “The unlawful characteristics of the [someone] were evident.”
    
    Yay for human rights!
    - http://twitter.com/DonnaComstock1 Donna Comstock
      
      @moshe, Rita answered I cant believe that a mother can earn $9936 in 1 month on the internet. did you look at this website…Cgx.me/lFg7Q
  - No1_2_u
    
    The Swedes are fighting back every chance they get; what are the Dutch doing in order to stop this shit from happening…Nothing.
    
    They are getting what they deserve.
http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

Appeal coming. Enough said.
- http://twitter.com/JustinB94292450 JustinBradley
  
  …..goo.gl/DlXZ6
- http://twitter.com/JustinB94292450 JustinBradley
  
  like Ryan answered I am startled that a student can make $5855 in 4 weeks on the network. have you seen this(Click on menu Home)
- http://jessicamasterson.myopenid.com/ Jessica Masterson
  
  @Guest, Carol said I am dazzled that some one able to get paid $8653 in one month on the internet. did you read this webpage…Nipp.me/e48
Baba

How about I request that BREIN take down their site? If all you need to do now to get a site taken down is demand it, then I want to use that power to demand BREIN no longer exist.
- etherkye
  
  I think we should all make reports against them to their host and make sure that anyone who hosts them after also takes the site down until we drive the company back into the hole it belongs in.
Guest

I think this was somewhat inevitable.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000956546320 Riza Jaan

LOL
moshe

So every site and host in the world has to follow the DMCA with regards to takedowns, but still doesn’t get its protections.
- Violated0
  
  I don’t think BT sites can get safe-harbour protection because they don’t host any copyrighted media which also means they can’t remove them. They are simply an index listing of things on the BT network.
  
  Still a DMCA-like system should be respected by a Court but it is still invalid for a hosting network to judge the legality of a website.
- joexxx
  
  DMCA is US only.
  - 7th_Guest
    
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmca#See_also : Related international law
    
    DMCA-comparable legislation has been pushed hard and with “success” by US interests around most of the western world ever since it went into effect there back in the early 2000s. That’s why many sites these days are concerned with compliance to this flood of MAFIAA takedown requests over the past 2 years even though they’re not based in the US. We need to sober up to the cold, hard facts and implications of the reality that global Big Content legislative influence has shaped over the last decade so we can finally mount an appropriate and coordinated opposition instead of basing our arguments on misinformation and fantasies to the tune of “these monsters don’t really exist.” Unfortunately, they very much exist.
    
    No offense though :).
Mr Afghanistan

Boy, that escalated quickly @_@
Datacenter hosting 10,000+ servers and should monitor each server which is providing illegal content… Dutch law is BS!
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  This isn’t even ‘dutch law’. This is a judge or group of judges who are out of control reading into the law what they wish to hear.
  
  Judicial activists, as they call them in America.
Guest

dear brein
go fuck yourselfs its only a torrent indexing site like the rest of the torrent sites, they don’t actually host the content being shared
Guest

A normal plaintiff would have to *prove* damages. A normal plaintiff also wouldn’t be allowed to sue a service provider for unproven damages allegedly caused by one of its *former* customers.

But BREIN isn’t a normal plaintiff. Thanks to the magic of bribery, it gets special treatment and doesn’t have to follow the rules of a trial.

Doesn’t that shit just warm your fucking heart?
Anyone

and this will kill hosting providers in the netherlands
well done

dear MAFIAA: can’t you just die like any other failed business, do you have to create so much collateral damage?
- FucktheMPAA
  
  This is starting to get ridiculas. Fuck off and Die MAFIAA, you are a disease.
- Gen. Eric Guy
  
  My wish for the coming Apocalypse is that it will miss us, and hit those who actually deserve it.
http://twitter.com/meekcritic Meek Critic

This ruling isn’t logical. How is the web hosting company supposed to determine whether or not something is copyrighted? They would have to staff an entire department that would need to research each copyright infringement claim.

A private company such as brein shouldn’t have the right to act as judge, jury and executioner either. Copyright holders and companies working for copyright holders have been wrong many, many times so why should a web host take a Website online just because brein claims that there’s copyrighted material being hosted? What happened to due process?
- Scary_Devil_Monastery
  
  Correct. and full marks for noticing.
  
  The only way to be able to comply with DMCA takedowns pouring in by the tens of thousands (some of which might not actually be from trolls out for kicks) is to either treat them ALL as valid or ALL as invalid. Or you end up with a staff of a thousand people just to cope with the claims.
  
  Google of course just allowed the biggest complainers to write and use automated takedown engines – with an end result of a 33% proportion of all takedowns actually proving completely baseless.
Victor

the cloud hasnt matured yet, 5 … 10 years end users will host their stuff … and there will probably be hosts without owners — a $10.00 solar powered box sitting abandoned hosting stuff access info writen in the bathroom wall — its time to think scifi because thats how fast tech is moving — the above is irrelavent
Spike

BRIEN seems to be having a lot of luck with “The Hague” and winning such ridiculous rulings on a regular basis. Friends in high places for certain.
- Anyone
  
  the best friends money can buy
Anonymous

another ‘bought and paid for’ stupid ruling by the court of The Hague. i hope it is enjoying what it is doing in the name of the US entertainment industries because sooner or later, it will come unstuck. courts are supposed to be neutral. having judges that are also members of the copyright industry dont count as bias? it’s about time one of these cases went all the way to the EUCJ and the EUCHR. the way things are going, car manufacturers will be fined for someone that gets a speeding ticket!
Guestt

Only in a sick, degenerate, Jewified society is something this morally abhorrent is possible.
- Guest
  
  Oh….stop being a nigger.
  - AndIMustScream
    
    I laughed.
    
    And then I felt sad.
    
    The vast majority of the world was built upon literal slave labor and wages of the lower castes of society. It’s what keeps the wheels, cogs, and gears of capitalism turning.
    
    Being a “nigger” really is fitting, honestly. I’m just another, uneducated cog in the great machine that keeps the fat cats in charge with no way of improving my standing.
    
    I sure as hell can’t find any decent job where I’m currently at that isn’t above government recommended minimum wage.
    - Anyone
      
      it was just a response to the original racism
- JordanKratz
  
  Hey Naziboy I am a Jew and the son of a Holocaust Website so for your lame Comment I say
  FUCK YOU NAZI
  - JordanKratz
    
    Screwed my Comment up and it won’t let me fix it.
    I run a Memorial Holocaust Website and I am the son of a Holocaust Survivor.
    
    We all hate the MAFIAA and the MAFIAA is made up of many different Nationalities.
    - AndIMustScream
      
      I believe he was making a joke. Humor is really difficult to detect on the internet at times. As the Jew is typically portrayed as the penny pinching, money grubbing bankster.
      
      No reason to get defensive over something that has already happened and in the past. Sure, it was tragic, even if the death count was bloated and the fact that the history books never mention the gypsies or any other ethnicity besides the Orthodox Jew.
      
      So, calm down, laugh it off, and keep on keeping on. It’s the only way to stay sane in this world anymore.
    - Guest
      
      @AndIMustScream
      Are you also joking or are you a holocaust denying moron?
    - AndIMustScream
      
      @Guest
      
      Who says I was denying the holocaust? Sure, the Nazi regime imprisoned and then summarily executed hundreds of Jews….
      
      ….and gypsies and the handicapped and the retarded and a host of other groups. The guy above seems to of forgotten that there was OTHER groups the Nazis gassed (which I found idiotic as that gas had to come from somewhere. Not to mention the facilities required to process the millions of bodies being systematically carted in via boxcar, killed, and then mass buried. But that is my opinion).
      
      What I was pointing out was that he needs to calm down for some Anonymous users comment on the web poking fun at a stereotype most commonly portrayed with Jews.
      
      He brought up the holocaust and Nazis in a totally unrelated article about copyright trolls.
      
      From an Anonymous commenter poking fun at the Jews.
      
      Seems I’m not the one who’s a moron. But I digress.
    - Guest
      
      @AndIMustScream
      Hundreds of Jews you say? You’re either ignorant or a moron.
      And focusing on the largest group of victims doesn’t mean that you are forgetting about the others any more than mentioning Gypsy victims means that you are forgetting Jews.
      It’s funny that you deny being a holocaust denialist but your digressions and methods just happen to be exactly the same employed by those spouting holocaust denial.
      Grow up kid.
    - AndIMustScream
      
      See. This is exactly what happened in Germany. Anyone who denies the official story (circulated by the Jews, I might add) is ostracized and subsequently tarred and feathered. They are humiliated for speaking their mind against the official story. There is no debate. Nothing. Nada. It’s our story or no story.
      
      What happened to debate, son? Whatever happened to actually *questioning* the hows and the whys? Form your own opinion instead of sucking at the teet of the official story.
      
      Paton said it. The German was the only decent people left in the entirety of Europe after World War 2. He would rather associate with them than the “Mongolian Savages” or the Russians. He also saw wrote to his wife commenting on what we had done to the German citizens after the war had ended.
      
      Look it up. It’s an interesting series of letters.
      
      I may be a little narcissistic, but I at least have my own opinion of things and have formed them from actually putting the time and effort into forming it by research.
      
      Do your own.
    - Guest
      
      @AndIMustScream
      the official story is backed by facts – shocker right? I mean who is the idiot that believe facts these days, eh? let’s start denying gravity!
      please tell me more about how Germans were such elite people of the universe after WW2
    - AndIMustScream
      
      Son, you need a reality check quick. Not everything in the official story is true. Nor is everything that is brought up in these conspiracy theories.
      
      Why do you think they constantly change the “official” story over and over, eh? Where is those allotted facts you so cling to? If the official story was factual, then why was the Germans who were evicted from their very homes never reported to be replaced by the Orthodox Jews? Why was it never reported that the POW camps conditions were so horrible German soldiers and citizens actually died of exposure to the elements? I could keep going, but it would be pointless.
      
      As I have said, do your own research, son. Don’t take everything as face value.
      
      And what happened to debate, son? This isn’t debate. This is you throwing insults at someone who is being civil.
      
      On the internet.
      
      Shocking, I know.
    - Guest
      
      I am doing my own research so how about you compare me previous versions and the current version of the story so I could see the changes because I didn’t find any discrepancies.
      evicted Germans? where? if you mean in Poland and the Netherlands then it was completely appropriate to evict them after the war – they were occupying invaders who took the countries by force. why weren’t these homes reused by Jews? hmm… let me think, I guess it’s because they were worked to death and gassed and I’m pretty sure the survivors were reluctant to come back.
      German POW were dying of poor conditions? doesn’t surprise me but after they were being monsters you expect the other side for compassion and fair treatment?
      
      Go on kido, debate your heart out.
  - ScrewEwe2
    
    Jordan, you had me confused when you wrote that you are “the son of a Holocaust Website”. Thanks for the follow up clarification. :-)
  - Guest
    
    @AndIMustScream
    You claim to have done your own research but then you regurgitate the long discredited talking points of holocaust denialists verbatim. Funny that.
    - Scary_Devil_Monastery
      
      Yes, well, had he done his research he would have had to explain bone residues from six million people, extensive nazi documentation about how the final solution was progressing…
      
      In short, he would be pointing at a conspiracy theory capable of vanishing six million people, along with assuming that every nazi camp commander in WW2 apparently was hell-bent on falsely proving that his country had perpetrated the most inhuman form of ethnic cleansing found in modern history to date.
      
      The short gist is that denying the holocaust presumes a conspiracy which would make whoever was behind it capable of acts of magic, time travel and extensive mind control. Who’s the likely suspect for that? God?
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http://profiles.google.com/pianogamer Knut Harald

“The unlawful characteristics of the (activities on) SumoTorrent were evident.”

Which is the responsibility of it’s users, not the site administration, the ISP, the electrisity provider, the government who ordered the building of the grid net, or everyone’s great grandparents…
Guest

No doubt the MAFFIA will see this as precedent now and will now start planning to do this in other countries especially any country that will play host to the forthcoming MEGA in order to get it shut down.
- IHaveNoBalls
  
  “No doubt the MAFFIA will see this as precedent”
  
  The MPAA have lawyers who set the precedents, its a tactic they use. Ive noticed that over the last 10 years of suing mania.. Its their job to set precedent, then expand on it.
1hhh1

They’re slowly starting to use the”common purpose”laws to stop sites operating.
Guest

Wow, really? This makes as much sense as punishing the builders who built a road that a criminal drove an unidentified car on, because they facilitated the criminal’s movement/escape.
- Guest
  
  Or suing the car mfg because someone used their car in a heist..
- Scary_Devil_Monastery
  
  Precisely.
  
  Translated to the physical world every message carrier would be held culpable if the sealed package they were delivering was ever found to hold contraband. Bye-bye postal service and FedEx.
Nathan

Will someone please find out the name and home address of the presiding judge? He should get a phone call. and this statement is protected speech.
DutchGuest

Schippers again huh ?
Why doesn’t this surprise me ?
It’s always the same corrupt little club of cocksuckers that is appointed these cases, and no one ever doesn anything about it, and in the meanwhile half the fucking country votes for the one party that’s in cahoots with these shits because they’re all a bunch of self centered cunts…

Seriously, any of you Americans want to trade with me ?
In the U.S. at least i’ll be guaranteed that i’ll be fucked, i prefer the certainty of that over the current situation where it’s ‘advised to keep the anal lube handy in case we decide to bend you over and screw you sideways ’till tuesday’…

(lots of sarcasm, cynicism and bad humor intended©)
- Somedude
  
  why don’t you stage a demonstration in front of the judge’s house? You could also burn a few cars in the process : )) Learn from the moslims, they know how to organize.
- Freedom of Speech
  
  Amsterdam is the best city in the world. Nothing in USA comes close. You really want to trade that?!? Think again!!!
- Colin Carr
  
  Hi DutchGuest,
  Is there no way in the Netherlands’ judicial system to appeal these obviously unjust ‘bought and paid for’ decisions from ‘the court’. I seem to remember reading many of them come from one judge who is plainly in cahoots with BREIN.
ScrewEwe2

SumoTorrent always has been a joke IMO. Haven’t been there for years. Just tried to DL 3 torrents and got the message “unable to load….Torrent is not valid bencoding!”
- FlashZ
  
  I still love http://www.SUMOTorrent.com, it’s fast & they’ve got a huge selection of torrents. there was a glitch a while back that caused that ‘bencoding error’ on some torrents (this has happened on other popular sites as well). The good news is that you can still download these torrents using the Magnet Links provided or a torrent storage site like Torrage.
Bastetx

That means therefore that banks are responsible for the mafia laundering money through them, Car manufacturers should be responsible if a person gets killed while driving [no matter what] … Governments should be responsible .. whoops never going to happen ..
Anonymous

BREIN going after XS Networks is not the solution. Anonymous is watching.
- 7th_Guest
  
  LOIC DDoSes can’t fix political and legislative corruption, bub. Quit the big talk, join our ranks and hit the fokn streets.
Who

ya whatever, that site sucked any way and didn’t have shit on it LOL.
SorlSee

The Court of the Hague? What kinda kangaroo court is that? lol. Too funny.
do-anon.tk
Anonymous Monkey

OK …it’s the end of the world …. now where’s my shotgun
PelouzeTF

Well done Brein. Put Leaseweb on your radar too. Thanks :)
- Guest
  
  Leaseweb? Which has been consistently shutting down sites based on BREIN’s demand? Making the bitch suck Tim Kuik’s dick not good enough, now you want the bitch to swallow too?
Asd

I’ve never even heard of SumoTorrent to be honest. This article was the first time I’ve ever heard of it.
- RetardIsasRetardDoes
  
  Exactly, another no name wannabe gone. Who cares. If ya dont know how to skirt the law gtfo.
  - http://www.SUMOTorrent.com/ FlashZ
    
    SUMOTorrent.com has been around for over 5 years and isn’t gone, as is evident from the article
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Send1

wonder if this could affect p2p friendly vpns in the netherlands too.
anon

“With this ruling in hand BREIN can ask for the shutdown of any site they deem to be infringing,”

this sounds like a great idea. I love the concept of killing of legit competition in the market place and to like customer choice. bye bye start ups
ThumbsUpThumbsDown

All true about Brein not being an normal plaintiff; and, certainly true about the seriously bad implications of this ruling. Yet, it is one thing to accurately define the problem; and, another to fight it effectively. Question: Can this ruling be appealed to a higher court? Will it be appealed to a higher court? What are the limits of the jurisdiction where this ruling is immediately controlling?

I ask these questions because Brein and its peers have a history of squeezing bad legal precedents out of hand picked courts (usually lower courts) and using them as cover while it savages its adversaries out of business. Usually, the lower court’s shitty decision, either kills off the adversary financially before appellate review; or Brein avoids potential reversal (with a clearly adverse appellate mandate) by settlement. If, however, Brein is able to squeeze the same confused garbage from a high court and successfully use that as persuasive precedent with the high courts of other jurisdictions, then the positions of targeted hosters and web sites will become extreme.

But, make no mistake: Brein is taking huge risks here. At higher appellate levels; and, against adversaries willing and able to go the distance, what Brein is betting is the Copyright oligopoly farm.
Past decisions reflect that most appellate courts are neither stupid, nor bought; and, they surely have the final capacity to whip some vicious legal kick ass on the kind of legal reasoning that holds third party intermediaries responsible for the deeds of their customers.
- 7th_Guest
  
  As far back as I can recall, XS has always had a dogged tenacity when it comes to protecting the free speech and privacy of its users against corporate interests or rightist gov’t moralists. I really don’t see ‘em backing down or settling here; no, this one is indeed likely to go all the way to the land’s High Court and XS will probably be proud to do it too (it will only boost that image). How much damage BREIN will have managed to do by invoking this lower court decision with other ISPs and against other sites till then is anyone’s guess…
foff

So in what there is no safe harbor. Who is Brien going to take to court next intel and microsoft or may be the company that owns the lines the signal travels on? Fuck them how can a thinking judge make this kind of judgement.? Further liability could this company have. How could any even begin to know or calculate any liability for the inaction of this company. This judgement is way of the charts of reasonability.
- RetardIsasRetardDoes
  
  Intel and Microsoft actually have money defend themselves. You on the other hand…
Byte Master

Recently, elections were held in The Netherlands. The Dutch Pirate Party didn’t get enough for even a single seat… not even close. Instead, the party of Chris Dodd-friend and Piracy Fighter (“download verbod”) Fred Teeven won big.

The problem is that, in The Netherlands, those that are “cybernauts” but would like other to see them as intelligent, just say that the Pirate Party is a “one issue party” and that there are “more important issues that decide their vote”.

Well, there you have it. I hope you’re happy. Because, instead of looking intelligent, you now sit there as a complete and utter moron.
- RetardIsasRetardDoes
  
  Maybe instead of being an armchair activist you could actually do *something* other than whine on the internet.
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joexxx

BRIEN can suck my big black dick!
- Scary_Devil_Monastery
  
  As soon as you tell them there’s money in it they will happily comply.
Cindywilliams25

this could be a good thing. it will be appealed, and no appeals court will side with Brein; and it will make the entertainment industry and ISPs enemies. there was a similar case in the USA, where someone tried to hold a newspaper responsible for an ad. on appeal the newspaper won
- Anonymous
  
  if you think the appeals court will go against Brein, you must be in cloud cuckoo land. if there were the slightest chance that the entertainment industries thought they would lose this case, the lobbying and brown envelopes would be flying around wholesale! i dont know if it was a different judge than the one that ordered the website blocks previously, the one that was found to have copyright industry connections, but it certainly sounds like a similarly bias verdict
Bjohensson

Why can’t the people, Anonymous, etc take down Brien? We need to have a cordinated and sustanted attact on Brien. Send Brien to hell, like ACS_Law!
- RetardIsasRetardDoes
  
  With what? Taking down their internet presence aka website will do nothing to stop what they are doing.
- NuchtereHollander
  
  Last time they tried to take on Brein, they even attacked the wrong site (brein.nl instead of http://www.anti-piracy.nl).
  
  I don’t think Anonymous is of any help here.
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nom

Next up, the court of hague sentences gunstore owner to life in prison after one of his customers fataly shot another man.

*facepalm*
- Anyone
  
  and all those car dealers now getting so many speeding tickets
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TheAllMightMAFIAALeader

Your doing it wrong BREIN what did I tell you before ?

Don’t go after 1 by 1 site at a time think big

Think like this, the unlawful characteristics of the activities on the Internet were evident. Moreover they were obvious to everyone, or should have been obvious to everyone

So just ask the Judge to shut down the Internet
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Derpy Guest

Wait a second. All the problems XS have went into is because of their stupidity in the first place. They were asked to hand over data of “real infringers”, yet they were postponing this. When they finally fulfilled the request, it was too late because the culprit flew away (but that’s not such a big problem alone) and yet they handled fake data (which certainly is a big problem, whether they were cheated by Sumo or not, and I doubt they were).

Now they are going to pay for their stupidity, that’s all. They were not too cunning, they are probably going to die (Sumo is/was quite big torrent site) and that’s how the evolution works. I doubt it will have real impact for other providers and “infringers”, although BREIN and similar blockheads will certainly try to use this ruling as a weapon (hopefully as a blunt one).
http://twitter.com/Anime4PSP Anime 4 PSP

“XS Networks should have taken the site offline when BREIN asked them to.”
are you fucking serious? Why should hosting providers listen to some fuckers without court order? pfft, this Court of The Hague hands out some really stupid (which look like bribed) decisions lately
Heeeeeeey

You know the thing about how pirates are supposedly the entitled ones? Well, I have never seen a more entitled bunch than the media industry. The way they expect, *demand* actually, that everyone does their bidding just like that, just because they say so is… well, entitlement of the highest order.

So the next time a shill for the MAFIAA starts spewing the “pirates are entitled” crap… look in the mirror you hypocrite
Hogspace

Which legal system does the Netherlands/EU follow?

“The Court ruled that SumoTorrent is clearly facilitating copyright infringement and states that XS Networks should have taken the site offline when BREIN asked them to.
The unlawful characteristics of the (activities on) SumoTorrent were evident. Moreover they were obvious to XS Networks, or should have been obvious to XS Networks, the verdict reads.
By keeping the site online, the Court adds, the provider acted unlawfully against the interests of copyright holders represented by BREIN”

So the Court in the Hague is arguing that law be carried out without Due Process? Is this credible?
Next file sharers will have their right to Habeas Corpus withdrawn, followed by the right to Jury trial. And they have the audacity to criticize Putin’s Russia!!
- http://profile.typepad.com/6p0120a5509de8970c ???
  
  So what BREIN says is law ?
  - Hogspace
    
    I don’t think you read my post right!
Otis

Lawyers are going to love this all the way to the bank.
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Hangpirates

Great news. No advertising, Stop File Lockers going after payment processors and it looks like something is coming of the fight.
Guest

What damages?
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Rftcrusher

These decisions that go against the majority remind me of terrorist sleeper cells. People that are placed in high positions for years until they are needed.Then they are asked to vote against the majority by the people who put them in place. Or just out and out political payoff.
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Tomtom

The judge should get deadly cancer. I curse him and his family.
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  Yes, wish death upon people… this crowd is whack.
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Mrmee

Utterly disgusting result. Basically, a rabid attack dog has been given power to abuse every host it see’s fit, in what will become a case of “it is easier to ask forgiveness than it is for permission” when it comes to hounding site owners, ISPs, viewers.

Copyright is merely an idea. And one of the more pervasively stupid ones at that.

We can go to the moon, send robots to Mars, clone animals, etc.

But can we figure out a good way how to share all of mans ideas while ensuring all those get the recognition and recompense they deserve?

Probably not, because generally human beings hate being wrong. It is a drug we refuse to detox from.

More love. Less copyright.
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Trelew

Guess someone in the Dutch government / courts must of gotten a nice payday from Big Business to pass a decision like this. B ut hey, get in the way of corporate greed and it doesn’t matter if its right or just they are going to make you pay to denying them their greed.
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