Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland

Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland

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.

hareConnector

BREIN is perhaps best known for shutting down Dutch eDonkey 2000 link giant [http://www.shareconnector.com/ 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, [cite web | url = http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1356 | title = ShareConnector to Return December 14 | publisher = Slyck.com | accessdate = 2006-12-05] 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 [cite web | url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2007/10/23/ecrdownload123.xml | title = Illegal music sharing website closed down | publisher = The Daily Telegraph | accessdate = 2007-10-23]

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 [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/] . TorrentFreak stated that they intended to seek legal action and damages of almost $1,000,000 for the alleged intellectual property violation. [cite web | url = http://torrentfreak.com/brein-pirates-torrentfreak-071119/ | title = Anti-Piracy Outfit Pirates TorrentFreak | publisher = TorrentFreak.com | accessdate = 2007-11-19]

References

External links

* [http://www.anti-piracy.nl/ www.anti-piracy.nl - Official BREIN Website]


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