The Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has won its court case against The Pirate Bay. The Amsterdam court today ruled that the site must cease all operations in The Netherlands within 10 days, or else pay penalties of 30,000 euros ($42,300) a person, per day. In an Amsterdam court last week, BREIN’s lawyer argued that The…
Pirate Bay unfazed by new threats
Peter Sunde, a co-founder of high-profile file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, says new legal action against the site is nothing more than “harassment”. Thirteen Hollywood production companies filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to try to get the website shut down. Read more on BBC News. Thanks to Brian Honan for this link.
EU bank data move ignored legal advice
EU member states laid aside the advice of their own legal experts in cutting MEPs out of talks on a new bank data deal with the US. The legal services of the EU council (the member states’ secretariat in Brussels) in July put forward a confidential paper saying that the European Parliament should have co-legislative…
Student sues Amazon.com over deleted homework
A class action lawsuit filed today takes Amazon.com to task after the company deleted George Orwell books from customers Kindles. According to the lawsuit, Amazon.com deleted these books after claiming that it had mistakenly sold them without permission from the copyright owner. After a barrage of criticism from customers, the media, and public interest organizations,…