[QUOTE]THE HAGUE — A Dutch court on Thursday temporarily banned Swedish filesharing website The Pirate Bay from operating in the Netherlands by granting an application brought by a copyright lobby group.
A judge ordered three owners of the site to "cease infringing the copyright of the members" of Stichting Brein, a trade association which represents the Dutch recording industry. It had brought an urgent application for the ban at the district court in Amsterdam.
For every day the ruling is ignored, the owners will be fined 30,000 euros (42,000 dollars) up to a maximum of three million euros, said a judgment published by the court.
The interdict would remain valid for two months, by which time Stichting Brein must have filed an application for a permanent ruling, or it will lapse.
The judge ordered Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Peter Sunde to immediately make their website inaccessible to users in the Netherlands.
Founded in 2003, The Pirate Bay makes it possible to skirt copyright fees and share music, film and computer game files for free using bit torrent technology, or peer-to-peer links offered on the site.
None of the material can be found on the server of The Pirate Bay, which claims to have more than 20 million users worldwide.
A Swedish court in April found Neij, Sunde and Swartholm guilty with a fourth colleague, Carl Lundstroem, for promoting copyright infringement by running the site and sentenced them to a year in prison.
They were also ordered to pay damages of 30 million kronor (2.72 million euros, 3.56 million dollars) to the movie and recording industry.
The four have appealed the verdict, though no date has been set for the hearing.
In June, a Swedish gaming group said it would buy The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular filesharing sites, for 5.6 million euros.
The company, Global Gaming Factory (GGF), said it planned to begin paying copyright fees once the deal is completed.
Stichting Brein welcomed the ruling, describing The Pirate Bay as "patently illegal" and saying GGF would also be held to the letter of the law.[/quote]
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There are more sites for this news.
Thank to the inventor of proxies.
And nothing of value was lost.
Besides, who the fuck in Holland even uses a computer for web browsing and downloading shit. Unless it's porn involving windmills and wooden shoes.
Oh well, I don't use The Pirate Bay.
Or live in Holland.
It isn't much of a loss.
Quick, evacuate Holland!
Nobody cares about holland, anyway.
What a surprise.
Don't live in Holland
Don't use ThePirateBay
Don't give NO FUCK
who's rating everyone funny
I'm starting to feel very sorry for the makers of TPB when their intentions are a bit bastardish, but seriously, they're not even the best torrent site out there, just the most famous one due to all this publicity it's getting (which is retarded.)
[QUOTE=Skippy!;16375309]Nobody cares about holland, anyway.[/QUOTE]
Weed is legal there.
Your argument is invalid.
[QUOTE=Canned Induvidual;16375385]Weed is legal there.
Your argument is invalid.[/QUOTE]
It's very restricted.
[QUOTE=lowtaxs;16375350]Don't live in Holland
Don't use ThePirateBay
Don't give NO FUCK[/QUOTE]
True this.
aite guys, lets all gather round the book burning fire cuz thats what's cumin next
[QUOTE=siberpredaht;16375411]aite guys, lets all gather round the book burning fire cuz thats what's cumin next[/QUOTE]
Don't be stupid.
[QUOTE=Canned Induvidual;16375385]Weed is legal there.
Your argument is invalid.[/QUOTE]
wow you're so cool
i wanna grow up to be like you
[QUOTE=siberpredaht;16375411]aite guys, lets all gather round the book burning fire cuz thats what's cumin next[/QUOTE]
yes they sure are going crazy destroying our culture by preventing people from stealing it!!!!!
i live in holland
michigan
[QUOTE=bobste;16375444]i live in holland
michigan[/QUOTE]
no
Wow Holland isn't cool any more in my book.
[QUOTE=Craptaskeet;16375415]Don't be stupid.[/QUOTE]
i'm not
you let one thing go because some uppity fucks from the RIAA deem it unnecessary
what's to say some uppity fucks from the catholic church won't have a say
you let in one thing, you're opening a gate for hundreds
censorship is wrong.. this isn't about the legality of it, the pirate bay only provides links to shit, they aren't actually hosting the material. if the pirate bay was involved with hurting people, or whatever the fuck, then it would deserve to be shut down. but for NON-VIOLENT crimes?
[QUOTE=siberpredaht;16375552]i'm not
you let one thing go because some uppity fucks from the RIAA deem it unnecessary
what's to say some uppity fucks from the catholic church won't have a say
you let in one thing, you're opening a gate for hundreds
censorship is wrong.. this isn't about the legality of it, the pirate bay does only provides links to shit, they aren't actually hosting the material. if the pirate bay was involved with hurting people, or whatever the fuck, then it would deserve to be shut down. but for NON-VIOLENT crimes?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_is_nine_tenths_of_the_law#Property_law[/url]
[QUOTE=Skippy!;16375309]Nobody cares about holland, anyway.[/QUOTE]
People who like salted herring, ie: Me
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;16375271]And nothing of value was lost.
Besides, who the fuck in Holland even uses a computer for web browsing and downloading shit. Unless it's porn involving windmills and wooden shoes.[/QUOTE]
Ehm, Holland probably has the highest rate of broadband connections.
Internet, Holland style:
[URL=http://www.speedtest.net][IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/517314965.png[/IMG][/URL]
Nooo!!! Now I need to use 10.000 other torrent sites :(
[QUOTE=j-richardson;16375462]no[/QUOTE]
but i do
[url]http://maps.google.com/maps?q=holland%20michigan&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=il[/url]
I'll probably just start living off Usenet trials so I can utilize my full connection.
[QUOTE=siberpredaht;16375612][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellatio#Ingestion_of_semen[/url][/QUOTE]
Yeah if you can't get the concept of property around your head then you really shouldn't complain about it.
[QUOTE=Craptaskeet;16375690]Yeah if you can't get the concept of property around your head then you really shouldn't complain about it.[/QUOTE]
he swallows. ayo
