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Originally Posted by WDF
I would not be surprised if a transfer of ownership for RyuShare is not in the works. They can not continue as a VN owned site/service and allow certain material to be served without continuing to be subject to the same laws that prompted the arrests the beginning of the month.
On another note:
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Cabinet: Netherlands has immediate download ban
The Netherlands is immediately prohibited by copyright laws to download from illegal sources, for example via torrent sites and newsgroups. Protected material This enables the government in response to a ruling by the European Court.
Sorry Google Translate is a little sloppy. |
In the Netherlands its no longer allowed to download copyrighted matrial from an illegal source, like torrentsites and newsgroups. This was announced by the goverment in an reaction following a statement made by the EU court.
earlier this thursday the european court of Justice announced that The Netherlands cannot allow people downloading of copyrighted materials from an illegal source. which basicly puts in place a download ban in effect emediatly."This means that downloading from an illegal source is prohibited, starting now" Spokesperson Wiebe Alkema of the dutch Safety and Justice department.
There is no need to change the law to enforce a download ban. There is no law that prohibits the downloading of copyrighted material: the goverment and Dutch judges only agreed that the law can be interpreted in this way. The European court now decided that this is not the case. The european court is above the national courts, so this ruling has more leverage.
downloaders are not in danger of prosecution: the goverment says its not a criminal offence but a civil one. this means that private organisations like Stichting Brein can go after downloaders. Stichting Brein announces that they will continue to go after the suppliers, and not the downloaders; that policy will not go unchanged.
This ruling of the European court followed a lawsuit filed by Sony, Philips and other Electronics manufacturers. The case involved the amount of "homecopyfee". in that case the question was made if the "homecopyfee" justified downloading from illegal source, because the fee is based on just that. The goverment will research what influence this will have on the homecopyfee.
Downloading illigaly can promote copyright violation according to the European court. and it can not be tolerated. The Netherlands always stated that downloading of such material is the same as copying a CD or DVD, but the European court doesn't agree on that. In the same time the European court recognizes that such a ban is impossible to maintain.
Civil rights movement "Bits of Freedom" calls the ban "undesirable". spokesperson Tim Toornvliet says the ban opens the door to 'unwanted blockades, filters and containment of the freedom of speech'."the next step is measures that are a privacy-breach".
In the past the goverment has suggested a download ban a couple times, but because of protest of civilians this has never been enforced. in the end of 2012 the goverment party PVDA said that such a ban is not excluded, but later the party called a download ban unmentionable. The homecopy fee is since last year also put on harddisks, smartphones, tablets and pc's.
Quick on the fly translation.
You're welcome.
Long story short.
There is a download ban, kinda always has been, goverment won't enforce it cause its a civil crime, Brein won't go after downloaders, but will continue their hunt on the suppliers.