James Delahunty
21 Mar 2007 10:52
Dutch anti-piracy foundation BREIN has taken down another P2P site: dsb-tracker.org. This Dutch language BitTorrent site offered torrent links to popular films, music, games and software to 8,300 registered users. BREIN executes structural civil law enforcement against illegal P2P sites and over the past 15 months 131 sites that facilitated around 1.6 million users were taken down.
BRIEN had previously contacted and threatened the site owner, but was ignored. BREIN then demanded the site's hosting provider, Leaseweb, take down dsb-tracker.org, a move which led to the operator taking it down himself. This operator was also owner of the site dsb-scene.org, which was also put on notice by BREIN. "Although this action concerns smaller sites we did consider requesting a name disclosure because the operator continued his activities after our notice." Tim Kuik, managing director of BREIN, said.
BREIN demands that site operators to give themselves up and sign an undertaking to cease and desist from their "illegal" activities under forfeiture of a penalty. If the operators cannot be reached or fail to respond, BREIN requires the service provider to take the site down and disclose the name and address of the owner or operator. BREIN holds the owners and operators of P2P sites liable for the infringements that take place through their services.
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Press Release