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Originally Posted by ServerGenius
The foundation is called BREIN (BRAIN) make no mistake about it they're pretty successful in getting sites down, closed and have providers hand over personal information about site owners.
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They're good at picking on very, very, small and insignificant sites that have no resources (one man band on a residential connection) or just can't be bothered to fight them.
Apart from a handful of notable exceptions, all of the big torrent sites are in The Netherlands and BREIN hasn't been able to do shit about any of them. They managed to get the names of the admins of Everlasting.nu (who? yeah, exactly) and also Demonoid from their host, LeaseWeb. Demonoid moved their servers to Canada and it's business as usual. What a complete waste of time and money. Congrats to BREIN for doing nothing about the problem by spreading it to another country.
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Originally Posted by ServerGenius
They are also the one who got torrentspy.com "closed" it's still up but only has links to torrents found on other sites. Brein sued the provider and won a court case which got them the info of the people who run torrentspy.com
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With all due respect, you'd have difficulty getting this more wrong, even if you tried. TorrentSpy has always had links to torrents on other sites. Just because they don't host them on the own server doesn't diminish the availability of the warez does it?
Also, any actions against TorrentSpy were initiated in the Unted States by the MPAA when they were hosted in the United States. It's only the fact that Justin Bunnell, the owner of TorrentSpy is a US citizen that anything has been done at all. BREIN did not sue anyone in respect of TorrentSpy and the recent limited service offered by the site has everything to do with protecting the privacy of its users and NOTHING to do with BREIN.
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In Holland people really fear Brein.....if anyone can get a site down the legal way......BREIN can.
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Sorry, but you are wrong again. Have they shut down Mininova, a HUGE torrent site hosted in The Netherlands with an Alexa Ranking of 96? No.
What about all the massive private trackers hosted in The Netherlands? NOPE
What about all the porn-specific trackers hosted there too? NOTHING
BREIN is a waste of space.