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Mininova removes all illegal torrents
The once-giant torrent tracker Mininova has removed all illegal torrents this week, following the ruling of a Netherlands court that told the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/20609.cfm - 28 November 2009

The Pirate Bay sunk by BREIN temporarily
The infamous torrent tracker The Pirate Bay was taken down today by the Dutch anti-piracy agency BREIN, although it appears the site has been ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/19781.cfm - 6 October 2009

Mininova is dead, must filter torrents
A Dutch judge has today killed the large torrent tracker Mininova, telling the site to either delete all copyrighted content from the tracker, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/19059.cfm - 27 August 2009

ShareConnector admin heading to re-trial
In 2004, the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN took down the once large ed2K link site ShareConnector, which had aided in finding files (or parts ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/18978.cfm - 20 August 2009

Pirate Bay deadline to block Netherlands passes
A deadline imposed by a court of law ordering that The Pirate Bay block all traffic coming from the Netherlands has passed quietly, AP reports. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/18829.cfm - 11 August 2009

The Pirate Bay must block traffic to the Netherlands
A judge in the Netherlands has ruled today that the three founders of the The Pirate Bay torrent tracker must begin blocking all traffic to ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/18666.cfm - 31 July 2009

Mininova trial gets postponed
The civil trial against Mininova, brought forward by the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN, has been postponed one month today. The outcome ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/18013.cfm - 21 May 2009

Torrent 'franchise' leader gets summoned
BREIN, the Dutch anti-piracy outfit, has announced the complete shutdown of a torrent site "franchise hierarchy" that were all run by an individual ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/16920.cfm - 9 February 2009

BREIN takes down more torrent sites
According to TorrentFreak, the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has gone after a number of torrent sites including the large Bulgarian tracker ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/16260.cfm - 10 December 2008

BitTorrent tracker Araditracker shut down
The private torrent tracker AradiTracker has been closed down by its administrators, exactly one year after having legal action pursued against ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/15291.cfm - 30 August 2008

BREIN gets another victory
Following last week's victory in court over the web host LeaseWeb, BREIN has scored another "win" against the file-sharing community, this time ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14788.cfm - 14 July 2008

LeaseWeb loses court appeal to BREIN
An Amsterdam Court of Appeals has ruled against the Dutch web host LeaseWeb , meaning the host will have to divulge the personal information ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14695.cfm - 4 July 2008

Former OiNK user gets arrested
According to TorrentFreak, British police have arrested a former user of the private torrent tracker OiNK for uploading and seeding a single ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14311.cfm - 31 May 2008

BREIN wants to shutdown Mininova
BREIN, the Dutch anti-piracy agency that has started a crusade against public torrent trackers, has another site in its sights, the world's ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14199.cfm - 22 May 2008

Demonoid tracker moves to Ukraine
Despite the actual website still being down, the once very popular torrent Tracker Demonoid is back, and hosted in the Ukraine. Back in June ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13265.cfm - 17 March 2008

Dutch court fines Bollywood pirates
A Dutch court has handed out fines up to €15,000 to several Rotterdam shopkeepers for selling counterfeit Bollywood material. Three of the defendants ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/12164.cfm - 15 December 2007

BREIN on verge of shutting down many large torrent trackers
The infamous Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has now gotten the web host LeaseWeb to take down several more torrent trackers, and this time the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11879.cfm - 18 November 2007

ShareConnector closes doors again
ShareConnector.com has closed its doors again following threats from Dutch anti-piracy foundation BREIN made directly to the administrator, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11837.cfm - 15 November 2007

CRIA threats lead to shutdown of Demonoid site
Visitors to BitTorrent Tracker site Demonoid.com over the last several hours have been greeted by the following message: "The CRIA threatened ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11749.cfm - 9 November 2007

CRIA allegedly shuts down Demonoid
Demonoid, the very popular torrent tracker, has allegedly been taken down by CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) as users have noticed ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11251.cfm - 25 September 2007

Dutch police raid pirate disc plant
Acting on a complaint made by Dutch anti-piracy foundation BREIN, Dutch police officers have raided and dismantled a plant used for the production ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11097.cfm - 13 September 2007

BREIN takes down three more torrent trackers
According to TF, three more torrent tracker sites have been shut down by BREIN, the Dutch anti-piracy group. Once again at the center of the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10925.cfm - 31 August 2007

Update: Demonoid will be taken offline by BREIN
It seems BREIN has won their battle against Demonoid although the victory is very limited. Today, BREIN announced that Leaseweb has agreed to ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10383.cfm - 12 July 2007

LeaseWeb fights back against BREIN
LeaseWeb, the web host that is caught in the middle of BREIN's crusade against torrent trackers such as Demonoid, announced that they will be ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10219.cfm - 30 June 2007

BREIN claims to have shut down Demonoid
BREIN, the Dutch copyright protection agency that has gone on a crusade to rid the Netherlands of "illegal" torrent sites, has claimed that ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10202.cfm - 28 June 2007

BREIN forces web hosting company to close torrent site
According to a BREIN press release, a court has ruled that a Dutch web hosting company, Leaseweb, must shut down a private torrent site, Everlasting.nu. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10152.cfm - 21 June 2007

10 illegal p2p websites taken down by BREIN
In the past few weeks, the Dutch anti-piracy foundation BREIN has shut down 10 illegal p2p file sharing sites including the previously reported ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9208.cfm - 1 April 2007

Dutch P2P site shut down by BREIN
Dutch anti-piracy foundation BREIN has taken down another P2P site: dsb-tracker.org. This Dutch language BitTorrent site offered torrent links ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9064.cfm - 21 March 2007

ShareConnector owner to appear in court
The owner of ShareConnector, a popular ed2k link indexing site that was shut down in late 2004, is to appear in court charged with "professionally ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7687.cfm - 21 June 2006

BREIN claims closure of 16 BitTorrent sites
Dutch anti-piracy foundation BREIN is touting the closure of 16 BitTorrent sites. The group claims it is part of its effort to "serve and protect ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7312.cfm - 13 February 2006

Legal music downloads way up in 2005
In the United States, the sale of legal downloads has jumped dramatically over the same period of last year. Between January 2005 and June 2005, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6643.cfm - 14 July 2005

IRMA wins Irish filesharing case
Echoing the same result in most countries, the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) which is like the Irish version of the RIAA, has won ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6639.cfm - 13 July 2005

Brein loses important P2P case
Dutch anti-piracy organisation Brein (you may remember them for being responsible for the shutting down of ShareConnector) had their plans dealt ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6634.cfm - 12 July 2005

ShareConnector news page put online
As AfterDawn reported, ShareConnector was shut down in December 2004. The SC Admin, Adi, has started a ShareConnector news page and has adressed ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6083.cfm - 11 February 2005

Shareconnector under fire from Dutch anti-piracy foundation
Dutch anti-piracy foundation, Brein, has sent an injunction to shareconnector.com demanding that they stop offering eD2K links within 5 days. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5538.cfm - 31 August 2004