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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">Today TPB was convicted in
The Netherlands to make its website inaccessible from NL. This is based on a
provision in our authors law that allows and injunction agains providing means
for copyright infringement.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">TPB was convicted to pay
the full cost of the procedure (well over 50K euro). Accodrding o the EU IPRED1
directive a full procedure cost convction is possible, but this amount is
outrageous.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">TPB did not show up, and
the letter they wrote could not be considered due to technicalities of
procedural law.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">DO WE SYMPATHIZE WITH TPB?
I am asking because a Dutch copyright critic argued tonight that TPB is
definitely infringing copyright under current law. Advocating a change in the
law is one thing, but delibeerately infringing the law before it is changed is
something else.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">First, I wonder
whether TPB really infringes copyright, which is both a matter of
technology and law.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">Second, I wonder whether
TPBs actions continue to help PP. Does TPB have an activist strategy,
or are they just slightly anarchist? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">reinier</FONT></DIV>
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