OSNews.com by Thom Holwerda:- Yesterday, the Dutch online community was surprised by a verdict from a judge who declared that The Pirate Bay had to make itself unavailable in The Netherlands. This verdict was cast in a case the Dutch RIAA/MPAA-like organisation BREIN had started against The Pirate Bay. With it being a widely known and established fact that downloading copyrighted content off the internet – even if the upload was illegal – is not illegal in The Netherlands, where does this verdict come from? Is it truly a win for the entertainment industry, and a loss for Dutch consumers? Not really – the situation is much, much simpler than that. (continue reading…)

NetworkWorld.com by Jeff Bertolucci:- It’s not easy being a pirate. In April, the four men who run The Pirate Bay (TPB) were found guilty of violating Swedish copyright law. In the past week, reports surfaced that that Global Gaming Factory, the Swedish firm that plans to purchase TPB and turn it legit, might not be able to dredge up the cash to buy the notorious torrent tracking site. And now the Dutch have ordered TPB to leave the Netherlands or face a hefty fine. (continue reading…)

BetaNews.com by Tim Conneally:- BREIN has won its suit against the Pirate bay, and now the troubled torrent indexing site has 10 days to block all traffic coming from within the Netherlands. (continue reading…)