Dear TorrentBit visitors,
After the most popular former torrent site mininova lost an action it became unsafe to keep torrent download sites in the Netherlands, even though you have a soft takedown policy.
In order to guarantee the security for the site and site`s visitors we decided to make our site more independent from the Dutch laws and existing court legal decisions in the Netherlands. Thus we changed domain name from www.torrentbit.nl to www.torrentbit.net
You don`t have anything to worry about, just continue using TorrentBit as usually for downloading torrents and ordering torrents for direct http download, just update your bookmarks and type .net instead of .nl in the URL tail.
Yours truly,
Torry
Posts Tagged ‘brein’
TorrentBit changed domain extension
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010Court Shuts ShareConnector Down For Good
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Five years ago, when most BitTorrent sites had only a handful of visitors, ShareConnector was serving eDonkey links to millions of file-sharers every month. This popularity didn’t go unnoticed by the local authorities, who were tipped off by BREIN and started a criminal investigation into the operator of the site, as well as the people behind the site Releases4U.
What followed was more than 5 years of legal battles in both civil and criminal court cases. In the criminal case the operator of ShareConnector came out as the winner in 2007 and was released from all charges.
The court ruled that the authorities failed to provide any evidence to prove ShareConnector was involved in copyright infringement nor enough to prove that it was criminal in nature. In addition, the judge ruled that the initial arrests were unlawful as the evidence provided by BREIN was insufficient.
After this decision ShareConnector came back online. However, this comeback was short lived as local anti-piracy outfit BREIN initiated a civil lawsuit, trying to prevent the operator from keeping the site up and running. This lawsuit was won by BREIN but the ShareConnector operator decided to appeal the ruling.
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The Pirate Bay Torrents Remain Online Despite Court Order
Monday, March 1st, 2010In the hope of dismantling BitTorrent’s flagship The Pirate Bay, anti-piracy outfit BREIN took three of the site’s founders to court this summer. BREIN won the case and Fredrik, Gottfrid and Peter were ordered to prevent Dutch users from accessing the site, a decision appealed in October without luck.
In its verdict the Court ruled that the three defendants had to remove a list of torrents from The Pirate Bay that link to copyrighted works. The three defendants and the site itself were not found guilty of copyright infringement, but according to the Court, The Pirate Bay assists in copyright infringement by allowing and encouraging its users to share torrents.
The Court gave the defendants until March 1 to remove a list of infringing torrents and to block Dutch users from accessing parts of the site where (.torrent) links to copyrighted files can be downloaded. If the three did not comply they would face penalties of 3,000 euros per person, per day.
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