This is kinda old hat. Brein also had a part to play in Edonkey's departure, but the average joe in holland cannot be prosecuted for downloading, aha I hear you say, nonsense? Maybe not, theres no law against downloading to your Personel computer, but uploading is a no no. So brein go after the source if the server is in holland. And of course there was a judge in Utrecht that stated, information gained by unauthorised methods will not be permitted in court. So all brein can do is take down the servers, not the users. And I'm almost sure that if they suspect you of illegal activities then they must contact your ISP with proof of your IP adress being logged and then its up to the ISP, and very few ISP's in holland are willing to co-operate with breinless

Just logging an IP adress does not merit enough proof for prosecution in a dutch court, they need to be able to prove it was your pc that was used.
Ans since almost all dutch ISP's work with dynamic IP's, that's virtually impossible.
God, am i glad i moved to this little country a few years back :-D

double post sorry

No matey almost all IP's in holland are static. All KPN network are static and all of the Delta networks in Zeeland are static, maybe other cable providers up north are different but I doubt it. And yes if your IP is logged in a public torrent site then they can say your IP was part of a swarm distributing copyrighted content, i.e. if you are downloading some linux software from say TPB then of course other people in the same swarm can log your IP. This is proof that you are indeed distributing. What exactly you are distributing could possibily be another story by the way the torrent is packaged and or named. This could result in an email from your ISP to ask whats happenin. But ISP's in holland dont have to surrender your details if your a home user, only a home abuser will suffer that fate, or those running webs that provide torrents