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BREIN forces web hosting company to close torrent site

article published on 21 June, 2007

According to a BREIN press release, a court has ruled that a Dutch web hosting company, Leaseweb, must shut down a private torrent site, Everlasting.nu. The identity of the website owner will also need to be divulged thanks to the ruling. BREIN serves the same purpose as the MPAA and although it has been unsuccessful in obtaining personal information in the past, they have recently enjoyed ... [ read the full article ]

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WierdName
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_ 		21. June 2007 @ 19:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hmmm... the RIAA/MPAA peeps have managed to infect other companies too.
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borhan9
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_ 		21. June 2007 @ 22:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
These lawsuits and companies like this will pop up everyday. Shame.
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ZippyDSM
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_ 		22. June 2007 @ 15:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
so a site or ISP talks about or gives links to stuff that could be ilegal or disliked by the goverment or corporations....close them all down I say! lets see how long a country works without the net :X
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domie
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_ 		22. June 2007 @ 17:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
after the huge publicity surrounding the closure of shareconnector.com a couple of years ago in the Netherlands, why on earth would the owner of a p2p filesharing site host his server in the very same country ?

the stupidity of some website owners is just unbelievable, if they can't take basic steps to protect themselves, how the hell can they hope to protect their members ?
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spam edited by ddp
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