Copyright Law

Pirate Bay to Challenge Dutch Ban

By soulxtc

Co-founders want a chance to present their side of the case.

The co-founders of Swedish BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay have announced they will seek a retrial in the cased of their recent ban in the Netherlands by a Dutch court.

“We will file a summons by August 25″ said their lawyer, Ernst Louwers, to the Local.

On July 30th the Amsterdam District Court ordered the Pirate Bay to “cease infringing the copyright of the members” of Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN and gave it 10 days to comply or face a fine of 30,000 euros ($42,906 USD) p/day.

The deadline quietly passed without any efforts by the Pirate Bay to comply.

Co-founder Peter Sunde, who has since left the Pirate Bay, mocked the ban and told the court they were unable to comply.

?None of us have access to even block everything, so good luck with that,? he said. ?I wrote a letter to the court telling them that.?

BREIN agreed to a new trial, surely at least for the simple fact that no one from the Pirate Bay was even present, but emphasized that the ban would also apply to Global Gaming Factory after it acquires the Pirate Bay on August 27th.

Stay tuned.

jared@zeropaid.com

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on August 12, 2009 (boomark / email).