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Pirate Bay Ordered To Block Dutch Users

Pirate Bay Ordered To Block Dutch Users

Once the kicking starts, everyone wants a piece, or so it seems. After being found guilty of copyright violation in Sweden, now file-sharing site Pirate Bay is under fire in Holland, too, according to the Guardian.

A judge there has given Pirate Bay 10 days to block Dutch users, or the founders will face fines of $43,000 a day, up to a maximum of $4.3 million. But as the court said, quite how it would enforce this is another question, since "the Pirate Bay is not a legal person who can be summoned, but a co-operative."

Stichting Brein, a Dutch group funded by copyright holders, has been exerting pressure to have Pirate Bay shut down, as have others elsewhere.

But the pressure seems to have become too much for Peter Sunde, one of the four Pirate Bay men found guilty in Sweden, and usually the spokesman for the group. In a blog post he’s said he’s stepping down as spokesman, and being ambiguous about whether he’ll continue his involvement with the site:

"I want to build something new and I want to focus my energy in a different direction. I have projects waiting to be finished, a book is waiting to be finalized and many more books are waiting to be read."

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