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Dutch P2P Site Shut Down

Filed in archive International , Legal by Marc on May 08, 2007

Dutch P2P Site Shut Down
The Dutch web stie dsb-tracker.org has been shut down by BREIN, a Dutch anti-piracy organization. dsb-tracker.org was a Dutch languagelinks BitTorrent site with 8,300 registered users that stored torrent files for popular movies, music, games, and software. BREIN claims to have taken down 131 sites in the past year and a half.

The site owner ignored BREIN's direct request to take down dsb-tracker.org, but then complied after BREIN contacted the ISP.

About BREIN

The BREIN foundation is the joint anti-piracy program of authors, artists and producers of music, film and interactive software; A unique bundling of forces of the entire entertainment industry in the fight against Intellectual Property theft.

BREIN is the central contact for government, law enforcement, trade and media in the Netherlands with respect to all issues concerning the unauthorised copying and distribution of entertainment products both offline and online.

BREIN is the Dutch acronym for 'Protection Rights Entertainment Industry Netherlands' and also the Dutch word for 'brain'.



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