Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland

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The Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland (BREIN) translates roughly as Entertainment Industry Rights Protection (association of the) Netherlands. BREIN is a trade association representing both the Dutch recording industry and movie studios. It is roughly analogous to the MPAA or RIAA in the US.

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[edit] ShareConnector

Further information: ShareConnector

BREIN is perhaps best known for shutting down Dutch eDonkey 2000 link giant ShareConnector.com in December 2004. Due to controversy over the legality of links to illegal content, and a lack of quality in the evidence provided by BREIN,[1] the case has not been put to trial yet. After being offline for two years, ShareConnector reopened in December 2006 but after barely one year; on November 12, 2007, Shareconnector went offline again.

Last Monday the guys from BREIN visited me at home to convince me to close ShareConnector or else they will start a civil proceeding with a claim. Of course, this does not mean I agree with their point of view, it's just that I can't afford taking any risks. As of today, November 12, 2007 I decided to close down. If there is anything new to report, you will be informed. Thank you for all your support and understanding.

On October 23, 2007 BREIN, together with IFPI, BPI, Dutch police, and other organizations shut down prominent Bittorrent tracker Oink's Pink Palace[2]

[edit] Alleged copyright infringement by BREIN

On November 19, 2007, TorrentFreak announced on its website that BREIN copy-and-pasted a sentence of text from TorrentFreak's website onto its own website without attributing TorrentFreak, as per TorrentFreak's copyright license[1]. TorrentFreak stated that they intended to seek legal action and damages of almost $1,000,000 for the alleged intellectual property violation.[3] Nothing however came from this.

[edit] Lawsuit by FTD

After a series of allegations that Usenet community Fill_Threads_Database (FTD) was acting illegally, the Dutch FTD started a lawsuit against BREIN in May 2009. [4] BREIN president Tim Kuik alleged in a Dutch newspaper that “Although they [FTD] are not carrying illegal content on their servers, what FTD does is simply criminal”. FTD is suing for a retraction of this libelous statement and demands a declaration from the courts that its activities are entirely within the law.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "ShareConnector to Return December 14". Slyck.com. http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1356. Retrieved on 2006-12-05. 
  2. ^ "Illegal music sharing website closed down". The Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2007/10/23/ecrdownload123.xml. Retrieved on 2007-10-23. 
  3. ^ "Anti-Piracy Outfit Pirates TorrentFreak". TorrentFreak.com. http://torrentfreak.com/brein-pirates-torrentfreak-071119/. Retrieved on 2007-11-19. 
  4. ^ "Usenet Community Takes Anti-Piracy Group to Court". TorrentFreak.com. http://torrentfreak.com/usenet-community-takes-anti-piracy-group-to-court-090515/. Retrieved on 2009-05-29. 

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