Teh One Who Knocks
01-11-2012, 11:39 PM
By Angela Moscaritolo - PC Magazine
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A Dutch court this week ordered two Internet service providers (ISPs) in the Netherlands block customers from accessing the Swedish file-sharing Web site The Pirate Bay.
The Hague district court ruled that Ziggo, the largest ISP in the Netherlands, and XS4ALL must block the site due to copyright concerns, according to reports. The case was introduced by anti-piracy group the Brien foundation, a lobbying body representing the Dutch recording industry.
The Pirate Bay, which was founded in 2003 and boasts 32 million users, is known as one of the largest enablers of illegal downloading in the world.
In its ruling, the court noted that 30 percent of Ziggo subscribers and 4.5 percent of XS4ALL use the popular BitTorrent site to share unauthorized material, according to a TorrentFreak report. The ISPs must block the file-sharing site within 10 days, or face fines of 10,000 euros per day.
In response to Wednesday’s ruling, XS4ALL said it is disappointed about the ruling and plans to appeal.
Following news of the court order, the hacking group Anonymous announced a spamming campaign against the Brien foundation over concerns about internet censorship.
"Anonymous will not sit idle while BREIN removes parts of our interwebz,” the hacktivist group said in a statement posted to the text hosting site Pastebin. “Undock your battle ships! Sailing these shallow Dutch seas we will hit this enemy vessel under its waterline. They should have expected us.”
In 2010, a Swedish appeals court ruled against The Pirate Bay’s creators—Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij, and Carl Lundstrom—upholding convictions handed down in 2009 for illegal file sharing.
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A Dutch court this week ordered two Internet service providers (ISPs) in the Netherlands block customers from accessing the Swedish file-sharing Web site The Pirate Bay.
The Hague district court ruled that Ziggo, the largest ISP in the Netherlands, and XS4ALL must block the site due to copyright concerns, according to reports. The case was introduced by anti-piracy group the Brien foundation, a lobbying body representing the Dutch recording industry.
The Pirate Bay, which was founded in 2003 and boasts 32 million users, is known as one of the largest enablers of illegal downloading in the world.
In its ruling, the court noted that 30 percent of Ziggo subscribers and 4.5 percent of XS4ALL use the popular BitTorrent site to share unauthorized material, according to a TorrentFreak report. The ISPs must block the file-sharing site within 10 days, or face fines of 10,000 euros per day.
In response to Wednesday’s ruling, XS4ALL said it is disappointed about the ruling and plans to appeal.
Following news of the court order, the hacking group Anonymous announced a spamming campaign against the Brien foundation over concerns about internet censorship.
"Anonymous will not sit idle while BREIN removes parts of our interwebz,” the hacktivist group said in a statement posted to the text hosting site Pastebin. “Undock your battle ships! Sailing these shallow Dutch seas we will hit this enemy vessel under its waterline. They should have expected us.”
In 2010, a Swedish appeals court ruled against The Pirate Bay’s creators—Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij, and Carl Lundstrom—upholding convictions handed down in 2009 for illegal file sharing.