Thursday, August 27, 2009

Dutch Court Rules Against P2P Site In Copyright Case

A Dutch court ordered peer-to-peer found Wednesday that the BitTorrent site had the capability to filter links that pointed to commercially produced films, games, music, TV shows and other copyrighted material. The court gave the site three months to make the ordered changes or face a penalty of up to 5 million euros, or about $7.1 million.

The ruling, a Google translation of which is here, stemmed from a lawsuit filed by the Brain Foundation, which argued that as much as 90% of a random selection of files accessible through the site contained copyrighted material.

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Source: informationweek.com
By: Antone Gonsalves

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