TPB will care about this judgment as much as they did about the Swedish one, i.e. not at all.. They have shown a degree of support for PP, but they also support liberals and the green party so it depends who of them you ask..<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Reinier Bakels <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:r.bakels@planet.nl">r.bakels@planet.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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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>
<div><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"></font> </div>
<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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