Alpha1
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The Dutch court has ruled that a major Usenet provider (news-service.com) needs to remove all content that infringes on copyright. The Usenet provider needs to do so within for weeks or pay €50.000 ($68.000) per day. The court does not give any consideration to the fact that usenet gets 15 to 20 million posts per day and usenet has no method to filter content. The Usenet provider states they are simply transmitting content, much like an internet provider does.
The court ruling may have large implications to other internet services, like forums, but also file hosting like megaupload, drop box, etc.
Its not the first time that courts have come to such a ruling. A similar court ruling 2 years ago terminated the website and service mininova.
Read more:
http://torrentfreak.com/major-usenet-provider-ordered-to-remove-all-infringing-content-110929/
The court ruling may have large implications to other internet services, like forums, but also file hosting like megaupload, drop box, etc.
Its not the first time that courts have come to such a ruling. A similar court ruling 2 years ago terminated the website and service mininova.
Read more:
http://torrentfreak.com/major-usenet-provider-ordered-to-remove-all-infringing-content-110929/