Dutch Anti Piracy Organisation BREIN closed 7 Torrentsites
 

Dutch Anti Piracy organisation has closed down 7 torrent sites with over
70.000 registered users which were all hosted in the Netherlands and has
conviscated their servers and personal information about their owners.

Dutch Internet Hosting Provider LeaseWeb was forced by court to cooperate
with Brein and give access to the servers and hand over any information about
the owners.

The owners will be prosecuted by law.

http://www.anti-piracy.nl

:thumbsup

I'm in contact with BREIN regarding porn piracy and so far had some good
conversations with them and they are willing to assist by taking action
and providing us with information on how to address the problem. If all goes
well I will have someone from BREIN come to webmaster access to attend
the round table meeting and answer our questions :winkwink:

here's the original article....it's in Dutch though....and it mentions 6 but another
was added yesterday

http://www.anti-piracy.nl/nieuws/ber...wsberichtid=83

good- illegal torrents are leeching, thieving, vermons. thanks for the article.

every country should have laws as Poland where people can get a surprise police visit at any time and get their computers seized when they are sharing pirated files on the web

Thats great news, I hope they jail the fuckers, Bubba loves geeks

did u talk whit brein? Can u hit me up on ICQ please.

We do have that here......individual persons get fined up to 67.000 euros
for distributing piracy content (including linking to it) or max 4 years prison.
Companies contributing to piracy can be fined up to 670.000 euros and 4 years
of prison.

Both automatically get prosecuted by the dutch IRS as it's a tax violation :thumbsup

Ik contact je vanmiddag ergens.....ben ff druk bezig.....:thumbsup

Is goed :) spreek je later

Awesome news and it's just the start.

Great news!

Yes the best part of this is that the supreme court ruled that any provider that
doesn't provide BREIN with the info regarding piracy sites or isn't able to hand
over correct info (fake address and such) will automatically be held responsible
for the damage which means they can and will be fined up to 670.000 euros
and risk 4 years of prison.

LeaseWeb is the most famous providers facilitating to Torrent and Usenet
Piracy sites.....they got hit hard and got convicted to paying huge fines.
All torrent sites on their network have been closed down now.

Also KPN a dutch telecom/internet provider got fined for the same reasons.
The Netherlands is stepping up to fight piracy and they mean serious business
now. :thumbsup

Holland is no longer a safe haven for piracy....instead our country is now one
of the leading countries in fighting it

This is not the first time brein those this. And brein is just a private orginisation just like u and I can start up.

U just need funds. And the Netherlands is a good place to start such a origination because here is a lot of bandwidth for cheap prices. (VPS whit 100Mbit flatfee for 250 euro)

But I get the feeling this wil never happen in the adult scene.

But what about eweka, giganews, newsxs, highwinds and many others. They have more porn and music and shit on their harddisks then u will ever have.

Mooi zo,boontje komt eindelijk om z'n loontje De piraterij in ons kikkerlandje vind ik als seksblogger en importhollander om van te kotsen!

eweka is the only dutch company from that list and they'll be struck very soon.

newsxs also dutch.......

Your answer is wrong. Eweka was bought by Highwinds in orlando florida. But al those names I put there are located whit the servers in NL.

btw newsxs is just a reseller of http://www.news-service.com/

Also dutch btw

Great news!

Eweka their "Datacenter" is around the corner of my office and I know them
personally very well. Obviously Holland can only prosecute dutch residents
and companies.....they CAN close down any server that's hosted in NL
though....Eweka is still a Dutch company....highwinds may have bought it
but they bought the Dutch company.....so it's still Dutch and can be
procesuted by law :2 cents:

I know all the company's that i named in person. So I also now how it works.)

But the owner of the eweka BV is a US company. So u can not sue them. U can sue eweka bv but what u get then is that they just will declare bankruptcy.

There are many drawbacks to such rulings. First of all, you forget that it's not against the law everywhere to host torrents. Hosting companies have to protect their customers and privacy reputation as well. Having to hand over information without any further ado would only suit a dictatorial regimen.

No coz it's only relevant to companies and individuals that commit a crime.
They can't just close down anyone without proof. Anyway I'm not here to
discuss whether their strategy is flawless or not......7 torrent sites got closed
and that's good news to me........and I'll guarantee more will follow

I see piratebay is still coming up. Till that day it doesn't, I don't care about feel-good stories like this.

O look, You said what, 70,000 users ? Lol. Okay. With what, 500 active too ?

Yeah right....you can't just declare bankruptcy....eweka b.v. has assets
for example all their servers and infrastructure.....:2 cents:

Great news and a good signal: Torrent webmasters can't feel safe any more. I just hope courts in other countries step up as well...and next stop is online file storage services like rapidshare.

it's a start and that's better than idiots like you who are only whining :winkwink:

Mr. elite H4x0r

It would be great If you can get your Brein contact to come over to WMA.

that is bad ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

one or 7 at a time... bring them down!!!

Thats really good news to hear:)

Good thing all torrentsites I use still is up.

I hope we won't see the day when they decide to crack down online porn.

Netherlands and crack down online porn ? WTF what must all the people do then ?

some countries have openly stated they will not prosecute p2p and BT sites. sweden is one, i believe france followed suit as well.

I know. I know.

But, although some torrents are bad I'd like to see the law based on which
they shut down those sites given that they don't actually serve any content
they just keep some meta data about files.

Don't talk to mr elite armchair lawyer, he's doing stuffs.

strong come back son.......I'm not doing anything....I'm simply informing GFY
regarding several articles in Dutch newspapers.......try again

What, don't tell me, somebody hacked your account ?

hacked my account.....you smoking crack?