Dutch Court of Appeals overturns Pirate Bay IP blockade
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Dutch Court of Appeals overturns Pirate Bay IP blockade
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#2I think it's nice to live in a country where courts still exist that are not influenced by lobbyist and politics. Especially since BREIN has been ordered to repay the 326.000 in court fees.
Re: Dutch Court of Appeals overturns Pirate Bay IP blockade
#3I think it's nice to live in a country where courts still exist that are not influenced by lobbyist and politics. Especially since BREIN has been ordered to repay the 326.000 in court fees.
And where internet providers owned by publicly traded corporations actually spend time and money fighting in court.
Re: Dutch Court of Appeals overturns Pirate Bay IP blockade
#4I think it's nice to live in a country where courts still exist that are not influenced by lobbyist and politics. Especially since BREIN has been ordered to repay the 326.000 in court fees.
And where internet providers owned by publicly traded corporations actually spend time and money fighting in court.
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#5Too bad I live in a country where it's possible and too easy to buy the courts (Sweden).
Re: Dutch Court of Appeals overturns Pirate Bay IP blockade
#6One of the few a great judgment in recent time. It is nice to see that cost–benefit still count for something, rather than emotional response backed by government control.
It has been around 200 years, and society has changed for the better by it. Every time government trail away from it, especially in punishment, it seem to be caused by corruption. Good that the Court of Appeals of The Hague can recognize and see it.
Re: Dutch Court of Appeals overturns Pirate Bay IP blockade
#7One of the few a great judgment in recent time. It is nice to see that cost–benefit still count for something, rather than emotional response backed by government control. It has been around 200 years, and society has changed for the better by it. Every time government trail away from it, especially in punishment, it seem to be caused by corruption. Good that the Court of Appeals of The Hague can recognize and see it…
This is subjective, but as an American living in NL I've been fairly impressed with the Dutch government's (parliament, cities, unions, within parties, and courts) pragmatism.
While there are cases of people maintaining hard-line statements, it seems to be less common than in normal US discourse.
Re: Dutch Court of Appeals overturns Pirate Bay IP blockade
#8Seems like this would open the way for the UK ISPs which are currently obliged to block torrent sites to get that requirement overturned. BT and others pushed back against it in the first place, IIRC.
Re: Dutch Court of Appeals overturns Pirate Bay IP blockade
#9I think it's nice to live in a country where courts still exist that are not influenced by lobbyist and politics. Especially since BREIN has been ordered to repay the 326.000 in court fees.
Apparently the judge who issued the original verdict had connections with BREIN' lawyer.
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-censorship-judge-is-corru...
Re: Dutch Court of Appeals overturns Pirate Bay IP blockade
#10I'm always intrigued by the lack of vision shown by organisations like BREIN. Blocking an IP address will not block an idea deeply embedded in the mindset of almost whole generations.
It is, after all, "common knowledge" distribution has shifted, and pirates use this at every turn to justify their actions.
>A copy is not theft, it is a copy, final.
>The money I didn't spend on this movie was already earmarked for another purpose; nothing changed.
There's a social aspect, too.
>All my friends are pirating, if I do not, I fall behind; there is no choice.
Like an empire or a dynasty, the entertainment business is simply too entrenched; disconnected from the real world, to realise they are the ones at fault. It's not a question of ethics (we made it, we earned it, abide by our wishes), it's a matter of majority opinion.
It's refreshing to see this result, I just hope it sprung from correct reasoning, blocking any form of information should be done under the harshest of scrutinies, which means not just for the sake of attempting the sate a billion-dollar industry.
Used to be a time, when capitalism meant keeping with the times or succumbing to it. This sometimes feels eerily reminiscent of what I was taught about Soviet Russia: keeping their factories and businesses going at all costs, because the 5-year-plan was more important than progress.
USSR did not need billions of buckets, we do not need billions of optical disks.