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There is something extremely fishy going on in the Court of The Hague. BREIN (which is just a local front for the MPAA and RIAA, since NL barely has a movie/re
by rickmb 14y ago
There is something extremely fishy going on in the Court of The Hague.
BREIN (which is just a local front for the MPAA and RIAA, since NL barely has a movie/recording industry of it's own, and what there is is barely affected by piracy) has for years shopped around in various courts, but has now focused completely on The Hague where it has had a series of favorable results. Some of which, especially the censorship order, are considered extremely debatable within the legal community.
This one really takes the biscuit: the utter refusal of the court to even allow a legal democratic political party to defend itself is completely unprecedented.
In other news: BREIN is now also suing other ISP's (again, in The Hague), and the court has appointed the same judge that was responsible for the previous controversial censorship order. Attempts to have the judge removed from the case have failed.
- cnbeuiwx 14y agoThings like these are only strange if you expect the legal system to be fair. Clearly its not. I think its a parody. :) The young guys behind Pirate Bay are the kind of heroes that hardly exists today because they dont give in to the threats from a broken industry. And the corporations chasing them around consists of greedy, cowardly, corrupted, morally bankrupt old men. Not really the kind of guys we should even listen to. In fact, I think my mother told me to stay away from that kind of, errm, gentlemen...
- mahmud 14y agoIsn't the Hague just for trying Africans? http://www.france24.com/en/20120315-lubanga-kony-icc-africans-international-justice-hague-syria-congo http://www.france24.com/en/20120315-lubanga-kony-icc-african...
- Joakal 14y agoIf you looked up Hague, you'll find there are many different types of courts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hague Not just 'Africans'.
- jacquesm 14y agoThere are several courts in the Hague, the international criminal court is one (and they don't just try Africans, they try war criminals from all over the globe). Then there is the 'regular' court in the Hague. Most major dutch cities have their own local courts.
- joelhaasnoot 14y agoIn other news? Research by University of Amsterdam has shown that the ban has had no effect on number of downloads. (PDF: http://tweakimg.net/files/upload/dutchpirate.pdf http://tweakimg.net/files/upload/dutchpirate.pdf [Dutch])