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Torrent host ordered to pay damages
- ari_elle 14y agoI don't know what their logic behind this was. BREIN is described on wikipedia as "an association in which the Dutch recording industry and movie studios participate" [1]. They describe themselves on their official homepage as "joint anti-piracy program of [...] distributors of music, film, games, interactive software and books"[2] As participants they mostly refer to different Associations (producers, Motion Picture Association, Film Distributors), but no single direct tie according to this site to any governmental institution. Sow how can a privately operated anti-piracy Organization request the takedown of a torrent site and then successfully sue the ISP if it doesn't comply? This is sick [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREIN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREIN [2] http://www.anti-piracy.nl/english.php http://www.anti-piracy.nl/english.php Update: According to their reporting about the incident, the ISP "[...] disclosed identity details that clearly were falsified and held back other identifying details" [3]. I guess/hope their punishment was because of that. Though they further state that "The court ruled that Sumotorrent is 'evidently', i.e. clearly, illegal, and XSnetworks should have known that.", which is in my opinion not really a justifiable logic for a court. [3] http://www.anti-piracy.nl/nieuws.php?id=282 http://www.anti-piracy.nl/nieuws.php?id=282