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Court Rules That The Pirate Bay Must Block Dutch Users... Again... But ISPs Don't Have To Block

from the for-all-works? dept

Tue, Jul 20th 2010 12:25am — Mike Masnick

A year after an initial ruling saying that all Dutch users must be blocked from reaching The Pirate Bay, another court has upheld the ruling, saying not only that The Pirate Bay must block Dutch users from accessing the site, but that three of the site's founders have to pay 50,000 euros per day if they fail to do so. Given how those three have responded to previous rulings, I imagine they won't pay much attention to this ruling either.

Of course, the Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has been fighting this campaign on both fronts. Not only was it trying to force The Pirate Bay to block access to Dutch surfers, but it was also trying to force ISPs to block access back to The Pirate Bay as well. The good news is that the courts have actually rejected that attempt, saying that "there is no evidence that the majority of the customers are using The Pirate Bay to infringe copyright" and that if BREIN wants to target users, it should target them individually.

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Filed Under: blocking, copyright, isps, netherlands
Companies: the pirate bay, ziggo

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Charming Charlie, 20 Jul 2010 @ 12:44am

I'm not Dutch, nor in the Neatherlands, but Pirate Bay appears down for me right now in the US.
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tony tone tone, 20 Jul 2010 @ 12:46am

same here cant connect to any torrent page just the chat
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tony tone tone, 20 Jul 2010 @ 12:46am

same here cant connect to any torrent page just the chat
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warblade, 20 Jul 2010 @ 12:49am

same here, i'm in the US too. Looks like the ship has sunk
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tony tone tone, 20 Jul 2010 @ 12:51am

wtf.. now I cant get in the chat ether?%^%$&% I think your right blade
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Prometheus, 20 Jul 2010 @ 12:55am

Ireland biggest ISP........
Eircom rolled over at hints of legal action and have filtered TPB altogether for the last year or so.
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- Anonymous Coward, 20 Jul 2010 @ 1:00am
  
  Re: Ireland biggest ISP........
  this happens once in a while but never this long
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Anonymous Coward, 20 Jul 2010 @ 1:04am

man this is bull
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Tony tone tone, 20 Jul 2010 @ 1:13am

Ok It's still down! I think it's over for good this time :(
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Dave, 20 Jul 2010 @ 1:17am

WOOOOH U.S.A.!!!!

yeah it's down for me.... now where will i go for my porn
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Tony tone tone, 20 Jul 2010 @ 1:19am

Fuck YOU Anonymous Coward

YOUR A PUSSY
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joshua tyle, 20 Jul 2010 @ 1:19am

yeah, man i love porn
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joshua tyle, 20 Jul 2010 @ 1:19am

yeah, man i love porn
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Fernando Roberto, 20 Jul 2010 @ 1:21am

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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BearGriz72 (profile), 20 Jul 2010 @ 1:26am

This webpage is not available.
"The webpage at http://thepiratebay.org/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

Error 118 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT): The operation timed out."
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- BearGriz72 (profile), 20 Jul 2010 @ 1:38am
  
  Re: http://funnytranslator.com/
  Original text:
  "The webpage at http://thepiratebay.org/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. Error 118 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT): The operation timed out."
  
  ...56 translations later we get:
  "Name: URL or error 118 thepiratebai.org Internet: Web: err _ konnektyon _ timed _ Out) research"
  
  ROFL - Thank you Grumpy!
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grumpy (profile), 20 Jul 2010 @ 1:28am

When this

"there is no evidence that the majority of the customers are using The Pirate Bay to infringe copyright"

is run through funnytranslator.com this comes out:

"There is evidence that most customers use violation Pirate Bay"

Yup, that's how lawyers hear it alright.
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tom, 20 Jul 2010 @ 1:31am

They will be back!
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Jay (profile), 20 Jul 2010 @ 1:33am

Gee BREIN, what are we going to do tonight?

The same thing we do every night...

TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
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tony tone tone, 20 Jul 2010 @ 1:41am

well we still have felopy lol
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Austin, 20 Jul 2010 @ 1:41am

Don't give up !
Piratebay can't give up ... they are our top guys... If they fall that's a major victories for the big companies... We seriously need to revolt
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markymark, 20 Jul 2010 @ 2:24am

Its still down...and I was going to illegally download a movie.
Where is the justice!?!
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FYTREWQ, 20 Jul 2010 @ 2:47am

WTF
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Anonymous Coward, 20 Jul 2010 @ 2:57am

Site is back up.
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Anon, 20 Jul 2010 @ 2:58am

You imbeciles really think the bay is down for good? Jesus, you americans are so stupid sometimes..
They'll be online within 5 hours.
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Ecknora, 20 Jul 2010 @ 3:02am

And... it's back =)
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- cc (profile), 20 Jul 2010 @ 3:48am
  
  Re:
  http://torrentfreak.com/worlds-first-pirate-internet-provider-launches-in-sweden-100720/
  
  Hmmm...
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Anonymous Coward, 20 Jul 2010 @ 4:28am

So there's no evidence that the majority of Dutch users are using the site to infringe copyright.... but all Dutch users have to be blocked anyway?

That doesn't make sense at all.
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Known Coward, 20 Jul 2010 @ 4:44am

Pirate Bay
Pirate Bay is working in this part of the US.
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Anonymous Coward, 20 Jul 2010 @ 6:13am

Why are people freaking out whenever the pirate bay goes down for a bit? Damn kids these days! Patience! PATIENCE!
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NAMELESS ONE, 20 Jul 2010 @ 6:53am

page works fine
sucks if you live i suppose in the USA and dutchland

everywhere else its PRICELESS
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TPBer, 20 Jul 2010 @ 7:23am

Works fine in S Texas
Just grabbed a test file, we'll just chalk that up to a little R&D time at work.
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