Holland vs the Entertainment Cartels
p2pnet news | P2P:- Holland increasingly is becoming a sharp and painful thorn in the side of the entertainment cartels as they attack their customers with spurious lawsuits in a bid to drive them away from the free P2P networks and independent online music sites.
They don’t seem to realise suing the people who keep them in business, not to mention limousines, drugs and sex, is stupid.
They believe their bottomless pockets and the obscene influence they wield through corrupt politicians and compliant law enforcement agencies outweigh all other considerations.
But they’re wrong. For the first time in history, they’re dealing with people who can, and do, communicate with each other one-on-one and en masse, completely bypassing the corporate print and electronic ‘news’ and ‘information’ outlets which before the advent of the Net, were all there was.
In Holland, BREIN is the face of the online piracy conspiracy – the true piracy perpetrated by the cartels, not the fake one they use against their customer bases – and now ShareConnector, a blog largely dedicated to “P2P, ED2K, Bittorent, Piracy, Dutch Privacy policies and copyright infringement” and, “the way the Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN is trying to get the Dutch department of justice to do the dirty job for them” has just launched.
Says Zocor, in real life, Robert:
I met Adi on day one of his trial in the Rottedam court where i was making some notes for my own website, but was a member on ShareConnector way before that. The reason for me blogging is that i got arrested in july 2005 for piracy and copyright infringement just as ShareConnector but this time for running Bittorent sites LiquidTorrent, PhoenixTorrent and LiquidTracker.org I am blogging about all developments sins my arrest on my own website, but that’s all written in Dutch so me and Adi decided that it could be useful to get you guys updated about me getting busted and the upcoming trial, here on ShareConnector as well. Just to get the word around, so the whole world will know about these Dutchies who would not bent for BREIN, RIAA, MPAA or whatever organization.
Nice, Robert.
His first post is slugged The never ending story of BREIN versus the common (file sharing) people and Part I kicks off:
Because i reported on my website (in Dutch) about the trial of Adi and the crew of R4U against the Dutch state. I presumed to take it from there and translate it to English so you guys can follow the case from that day on. I will be updating, writing new articles about the ongoing trial, and every now and then write about new developments in my own case, updates, news and tutorials in ED2K and P2P technology. Well lets go and spread the word and start the journey to the unknown.”
It concludes:
I was getting the impression it was all a bit to much for the judge who in all his wisdom was born in the late thirties or so, and had missed the digital revolution. But he showed that he understood everything Adi was trying to say, every time Adi asked it the judge understood what he meant, the judge confirmed. As i said, a wise man who had done his homework.
After Adi had finished his presentation it was (R4U) Xarenion’s turn to take the stand.
To be continued …
And in his introduction to ShareConnector blog, Robert adds:
This blog shall be updated with translations of my Dutch weblog, the latest news about BREIN and the Tax fraud and computer crime policeforce ‘FOID-ECD’, and everything that’s got to do with P2P, Piracy, Copyright infringement and the Dutch justice department ruling about P2P issues.
I sure hope you guys enjoy the journey, and on the way learn something about Dutch authors-rights and (so-called) piracy.
No worries, Robert. There aren’t too many people blogging on the corporate entertainment spindustry efforts to bludgeon the people who keep them fat and happy into mindless consumership who speak from experience.
I’ll stay tuned for sure.
Cheers! And all the best …
Jon
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