An Amsterdam Court of Appeals has ruled against the Dutch web host LeaseWeb , meaning the host will have to divulge the personal information of torrent tracker Everlasting.nl to the anti-piracy agent BREIN.
Late last year BREIN began its attacks on LeaseWeb, claiming that it was the host to many large torrent sites. It won an injunction on a few of the sites including Everlasting.nl and the courts ordered that the personal information be released to the authorities. BREIN was happy with the decision, but LeaseWeb vowed to fight and the appeal has dragged on for months.
“Leaseweb is to file an appeal against the preliminary injunction relating to the ‘Everlasting’ bit torrent site hosted by Leaseweb. This means that the court of appeal in Amsterdam will hear the full case against the Brein foundation again,” LeaseWeb originally said.
LeaseWeb first made headlines when BREIN got the huge torrent tracker Demonoid shut down. The tracker however has since moved to servers in other countries and seems to be back up and running.
“In a recent case at the Amsterdam District Court, LeaseWeb was ordered to take down such sites. Although LeaseWeb has filed an appeal and will keep fighting for its client’s rights up to the highest court, LeaseWeb regrettably has no choice but to obey the court order and take down sites that list (bittorrent/edonkey) files,” read the original statement from the web host as well.
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Noel Gallagher, songwriter and guitarist for the popular band Oasis is making headlines with his comments suggesting that videogames are partially to blame for the explosion in knife crimes that have occurred in London over the course of the year. So far, 18 teenagers have died in knife related attacks.
“People say it’s through violent video games and I guess that’s got something to do with it,” he said, “If kids are sitting up all night smoking super skunk [cannabis] and they come so desensitised to crime because they’re playing these videogames, it’s really, really scary.”
The knife crimes have been big news in the UK over the last couple of months and celebrities have called upon the government to find a solution.
“In my day, status was trying to be somebody, do you know what I mean, not trying to kill somebody? I was up in Liverpool for a week a couple of weeks ago and even on the news there it’s every single night.
“I don’t even know what Cameron or Gordon Brown are going to do about it,” he added.
In March, the government looked into the impact of violence in videogames on children and released a list of recommendations that included letting the BBFC have a bigger role in game ratings. Publishers have complained however saying that last provision could make games “more expensive or face delays in being released.”
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After being found guilty in June of criminal copyright infringement for his role as an administrator for the now-defunct torrent site EliteTorrents, Daniel Dove now faces 18 months in prison after being sentenced by the Justice Department this morning.
In addition to his prison time, Dove was also sentenced to three years of supervised released and a $20,000 USD fine. The sentencing was considerably light considering he faced up to 10 years and a $150,000 USD fine.
The sentencing concludes the investigation into the EliteTorrents administrators who were held responsible for the leak of a workprint of the blockbuster hit “Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith” two days before it hit theaters.
The government described Dove as “an administrator of a small but crucial group of Elite Torrents members known as ‘Uploaders,’ who were responsible for supplying pirated content to the group.”
Before the site was shut down by authorities in 2005, it was one of, if not the most popular torrent trackers in the US.
Dove was the last of eight EliteTorrents administrators and uploaders to be sentenced and was the only one who pleaded not guilty. The others who pleaded guilty received smaller 5 month sentences.
