Posted October 25, 2012, 12:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
A ruling recently handed down by the Court of the Hague has set a potentially game-changing precedent for future rulings against hosting companies and their customers. The court determined that hosting provider XS Networks is responsible for paying damages to…
Posted July 6, 2012, 2:00 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in The Web
Despite European courts forcing ISPs to block access to The Pirate Bay, the move has had little impact on the internet's most well known, longest-running torrent website. In fact, according to a blog post by one of Europe's largest ISPs, XS4ALL,…
Posted January 31, 2011, 6:45 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN have collaborated to disable at least 51 torrent sites, which published links to copyrighted movies. 12 of them were based in the US while the remaining 39 were…
Posted December 16, 2010, 5:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web
The MPAA and Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN have collaborated to disable the domains of 29 BitTorrent, Usenet and other file-sharing sites accused of illegally linking to music, movies, TV shows and games. Despite serving Dutch users, the sites avoided Dutch…
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