BREIN has won its suit against the Pirate bay, and now the troubled torrent indexing site has 10 days to block all traffic coming from within the Netherlands.
Anti-piracy group Stichting BREIN (loosely translated as "the BRAIN Foundation,) took The Pirate Bay to court in Amsterdam last month for copyright infringement and demanded that the site block all Dutch visitors. The court announced its ruling today that the Pirate Bay's operators must "both separately and together permanently stop the infringements on copyright and related rights of Stichting BREIN in the Netherlands." Every day the site remains up will earn the owners an additional €30,000 fine.
Now that the "big case" is over, which resulted in the Pirate Bay's founders being sentenced to one year in prison and fined 30 million Kronor each, other cases against the Pirate Bay have focused on individual issues.
A group of Hollywood studios, for example, took the site's founders to court in Sweden this week with a cease and desist order for indexes of 100 or so individual films and television programs. The service frequently receives legal threats from copyright owners.
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